Photographer and activist James Mackay photographed former political prisoners including prominent activists such as opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
During World War II, thousands of Irish soldiers joined the British army to fight the war, but when they came home to Ireland, they were treated as deserters and put on a blacklist. Now, there is growing pressure on the Irish government to pardon those men.
Do the Bible’s roots in Ancient Hebrew and Ancient Greek mean that it combines right and left brain thinking?
In this slideshow, I am going to show you some cartoons from a Burmese cartoonist. This is the only Burmese cartoonist that I’ve been able to find so far. I am sure there are others, but lets meet Harn Lay.
The highly-politicized question of what to call the country visited by Secretary of State Hillary Clinton this week.
Pop music is alive and well in Burma. Ethnomusicologist Heather MacLachlan spent a couple of years studying and speaking to many of the people working the Burmese music industry. She’s written about it in her new book, “Burma’s Pop Music Industry” and speaks to host Lisa Mullins.
Burmese cartoonist Harn Lay shows what Hillary Clinton is stepping through and around in making her historic trip to Burma.
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has arrived in Burma on the first visit by such a senior American diplomat in 50 years.
Aung Zaw, a veteran of the 1988 protests in Myanmar, says Hillary Clinton’s visit is welcome, but that the civilian government has to take certain concrete steps, like releasing the remaining political prisoners, before it can say it is serious about reform.
New conflict in Kachin State shows how hard reform in Myanmar will be.
Leaders of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) have agreed that Myanmar (Burma) can chair the regional bloc in 2014, amid some signs of reform in the country.
Repressive regimes in Syria and Myanmar are increasingly using technology from the West to monitor and surveil activists.
The US said this week, if Myanmar showed concrete progress on issues like political prisoners, it would respond.
The government of Myanmar announced Friday it was halting construction of the Myitsone Dam.
A long-serving Burmese diplomat ended his career last weekend and has decided to defect to the US.
