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Category: Opinion

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Challenging the distortion of influential monks?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on December 4, 2019December 6, 2019

Lynn Htwe looks at responses to Sitagu Sayadaw’s comments on Pagan’s recognition by UNESCO.

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  • Opinion

Is where you go on holiday a moral decision?

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on October 7, 2019November 17, 2019

Bertie Alexander Lawson explores the moral questions surrounding travel to Myanmar.

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Taxing Shwe-Yin-Aye

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on May 21, 2019September 5, 2019

Swe Zaw Oo narrates a perspective on the prevalence of tax evasion in Myanmar’s cash-based economy.

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  • Opinion

The NLD Cannot Circumvent the Military’s Veto Over Constitutional Amendments

  • by Jesse Hartery
  • Posted on April 4, 2019July 6, 2019

Jesse Hartery responds to Jason Gelbort’s argument that the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw can circumvent the military’s…

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  • Opinion

Dire need for an alternative in Rakhine

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on February 5, 2019February 15, 2019

Thiha Wint Aung explains why responding to AA with full military might would be counterproductive.

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  • Opinion

Under the Umbrella: Drugs and Myanmar Politics (Part V)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

[Image credit: YE AUNG THU/AFP/Getty Images] Olly Gagiero describes how the suppression of Myanmar’s drug trade…

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  • Opinion

Myanmar’s Laws Ensure Journalists Cannot Speak (Part IV)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Darcy Moffatt discusses how the criminalisation of journalists robs Myanmar of press freedom. This is…

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Are our expectations of Myanmar realistic? (Part III)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Gabrielle Maginness writes about challenges to Myanmar’s transition to federalism. This is part three of a five-part…

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  • Opinion

On the Rote to Nowhere – Approaching Myanmar’s Education Reform (Part II)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Based on her observations, Madeline Luke explores potential improvements to Myanmar’s education. This is part…

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  • Opinion

Critical Thinking in Myanmar’s Education System (Part I)

  • by teacircleoxford
  • Posted on November 7, 2018January 2, 2019

Claire Allen considers an education curriculum based on critical thinking.  This is part one of…

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Series: Year in Review 2018

The Promises of Planning Under the NLD

Stalemate and Suspicion: An Appraisal of the Myanmar Peace Process

Myanmar’s Freedom of Expression as a Broken Promise of the NLD

Law & Constitutionalism in Myanmar: A Year in Review

Justice in Burma: Wounds on the Wall

Year in Review: Public Health in Myanmar

Marginalisation or Consolidation? The Parliamentary Year in Review

Genocide in the Modern Era: Social Media and the Proliferation of Hate Speech in Myanmar

Two steps backward to move forward: The energy sector moves in the right direction

Tea Circle’s Book Reviews

Myanmar Transformed? People, Places and Politics edited by Justine Chambers, Gerard McCarthy, Nicholas Farrelly and Chit Win, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 333 Pages.

Myanmar’s ‘Rohingya’ Conflict by Anthony Ware and Costas Laoutides. London: Hurst, 2018, 224pp.

Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Myanmar edited by Adam Simpson, Nicholas Farrelly and Ian Holliday, Routledge, 2018, 452 pages.

Opening up Hidden Burma: Journeys With – And Without – Author Dr Bob Percival, edited by Keith Lyons, et.al, Tenko Press, 2018, 230 pages.

Bagan And The World – Early Myanmar and Its Global Connections edited by Goh Geok Yian, John N. Miksic and Michael Aung-Thwin, ISEAS, Singapore, 2018, 230 Pages.

The Cell, Exile, and the New Burma: A Political Education amid the Unfinished Journey toward Democracy by Kyaw Zwa Moe, Yangon, New Myanmar Publishing House, 2018, 245 Pages

Border Capitalism, Disrupted: Precarity and Struggle in a Southeast Asian Industrial Zone by Stephen Campbell. Cornell University Press, 2018. 206 Pages.

Reporting the Retreat: War Correspondents in Burma by Philip Woods, London, Hurst & Co., 2016, 206 Pages, ISBN: 9781849047173

Recent Posts

  • Challenging the distortion of influential monks?

    December 4, 2019
  • Is this the end of Ma Ba Tha?

    December 2, 2019
  • The Traffic in Hierarchy: Masculinity and Its Others in Buddhist Burma by Ward Keeler, Honolulu, University of Hawaii’ Press, 2017. 331 pages.

    November 27, 2019

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