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Climate action needs cultural wisdom
Oped, Moe Moe, Published on 29/01/2024
» The recent COP28 marked the first COP meeting at which culture and cultural heritage were on the global agenda as forces to be mobilised for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Asean civil society participation in COP was key to gaining this recognition.
'I will be a journalist until the end'
Oped, Lu Kyaw, Published on 06/01/2023
» 'The saying 'journalism is not a crime' does not work here. It's the opposite. We [journalists] are afraid of everything. We have to worry about everything," says Ma Khine, who has been in working in news for eight years now.
Myanmar suspends foreign loan repayments amid dollar crunch
Khine Lin Kyaw of Bloomberg News, Published on 15/07/2022
» YANGON: The Central Bank of Myanmar ordered companies and individual borrowers to suspend repayment of foreign loans, the latest in a series of steps to defend the nation’s dwindling foreign exchange reserves.
Asean still toothless a year after Myanmar coup
News, Laetitia van den Assum & Kobsak Chutikul & Pou Sothirak & Kyaw Win & Dinna Prapto Raharja, Published on 24/01/2022
» The first anniversary of Myanmar's military coup is approaching. Since Feb 1 last year, the country's socio-political landscape has changed dramatically. Brutal fighting has reached many parts of the country and the economy lies in tatters, while the UN warns that half the population may soon slip below the poverty line.
Myanmar grappling with infodemic
Oped, Moe Myint, Published on 25/12/2020
» Be it false claims that drinking liquor or ginger juice will repel Covid-19, or that eating leaves of the neem tree will protect one from it, Facebook user Pa Pa has encountered them all in the varied, virulent strains of misinformation thriving around the pandemic in Myanmar.