Myanmar Six Months After The Coup: ’We Only Have Ourselves’
These are among the survival skills that many people in Myanmar are using these days, six months after the February military coup. Hypervigilance has become routine.
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In Myanmar, COVID-19 disaster adds to a confluence of crises
YANGON/BANGKOK - “Anyone in need of oxygen, go soon,” urged a post by a Facebook page called ‘Help You Breathe’, whose followers near 90,000 as Myanmar’s COVID-19 pandemic spins out of control. “Urgent need for regulator, where can I buy or rent,” one user asked. “Where can I refill oxygen in Yangon now?” said another.
The Myanmar police came for me. My unsuspecting mother offered them traditional tea
I am a 21-year-old freelance journalist from a town in Shan State, and began my journalism career in late 2018. One day in early February 2021, I was covering and filming a huge protest rally against the Myanmar military coup in my hometown, when armed police and soldiers broke it up violently.
No-Safety Zone: 5 Things To Know About Journalism in Post-coup Myanmar
YANGON AND BANGKOK- “In media training, we say that journalism is not a crime,” recalls Tin Zar Zaw, a journalist with two decades’ experience in training. Indeed so, but what do you do when your profession is effectively classified as a crime?
A Chat with a Myanmar Journalist
Just as the protesters continue rallies and strikes against the Myanmar military’s coup amid the brutal crackdowns by security forces, so have the journalists have been pushing ahead and struggling to do their jobs as storytellers. In this toxic situation, media networks and groups continue to sprout up among Myanmar journalists, whether online and on social platforms, and by telephone.
To mediate in Myanmar, ASEAN needs a new template
Asean hasn’t been gaining fans from its handling of the Myanmar military’s coup. But if it is able to craft a new template, the grouping may still count as the best pragmatic bet for getting a conversation going with that country’s men in uniform in order to, first, stop the brutal crackdown on its people.
Anger in Myanmar, But Crisis Distant to Singaporeans
Frustration, anger and desperation have been running high among Myanmar’s anti-coup protesters who want Singapore to cut business ties with the military regime, but the country’s events remain distant news headlines for the average Singaporean.
In Myanmar, Music is the Voice of Protest
The 1988 pro-democracy protests in Myanmar were heady days, a time when danger and excitement mixed freely among university students like me in the streets of Magway, my hometown in the country’s central region. Soon after, the terror of the military regime of the 1990s era kicked in, until the country’s supposed transition to democracy started around 2010.
Why people of Myanmar like Pinoys
Myanmar is a place where Filipinos are generally well-liked.
