• OPINION

  Suu Kyi reveals plan for Rakhine

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 19/10/2017

  » Myanmar's civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi has outlined the government's new strategic plans for the troubled state of Rakhine. A civilian-led agency -- with foreign assistance -- has been created, the National Enterprise for Humanitarian Assistance, Resettlement and Development in Rakhine State, which will deliver aid to the refugees, oversee their return and help resettle them. Ms Suu Kyi made the announcement in a televised address to the nation last Thursday.

• OPINION

  Myanmar army moves worry China

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 02/10/2017

  » Since the Kofi Annan Commission on Rakhine state announced its recommendations a month ago, Aung San Suu Kyi has been insisting that her government is committed to implementing them. As a part of this plan, a ministerial-level committee to monitor progress on the implementation of the commission's recommendations has been formed.

• OPINION

  The Lady between a rock and a hard place

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 18/09/2017

  » Muslim Rohingya have fled across the border to Bangladesh from Myanmar in the past three weeks to escape the army's clearance operations. Human rights groups claim it is a "scorched earth" policy -- reminiscent of the military's traditional "four cuts" strategy for dealing with other conflict zones. About 3,000 houses have been razed to the ground, according to local activists.

• OPINION

  Military mulls next move in Rakhine state

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 05/09/2017

  » For more than a week now violence has devastated Myanmar's western state of Rakhine as fighting continued between the Tatmadaw (the Myanmar military) and the Muslim activists and fighters. In the past few days the hand-to-hand fighting has subsided. The "attackers" have retreated into the hills," Aung San Suu Kyi's national security adviser, Thaung Tun told the Bangkok Post late last week.

• OPINION

  Rakhine violence leaves Aung San Suu Kyi reeling

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 28/08/2017

  » Myanmar's restive western state of Rakhine erupted into violence on Friday, leaving the government's efforts to find a solution to the communal tension there in tatters. Insurrection and arson engulfed large areas around Maungdaw and Buthidaung.

• OPINION

  Myanmar intensifies strategic courtship of Beijing

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 08/04/2017

  » Myanmar President Htin Kyaw is currently on an official six-day visit to China. This is his first trip to Myanmar's all-important northern neighbour, since he became president a year ago.

• OPINION

  Suu Kyi, general try to heal differences

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 13/02/2017

  » Myanmar's military chief Sen Gen Min Aung Hlaing and the country's top civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi -- the state counsellor and foreign minister -- have held a series of secret meetings over the last month or so. "These were unpublicised meetings, rather than secret meetings," according to senior members of the governing party, the National League for Democracy (NLD).

• OPINION

  A bold new step in peace, reconciliation

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 22/08/2016

  » The Myanmar government is making final preparations for the 21st Century Panglong Peace conference to be held at the end of the month. Several meetings between the government and ethnic groups over next week will settle arrangements for the massive event that will see almost all ethnic groups participate.

• OPINION

  Suu Kyi heads to China for key talks

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 17/08/2016

  » Aung San Suu Kyi is to arrive today in Beijing on a four-day official visit, which both sides hope will strengthen their relationship. Relations between the two countries have seesawed in the past few years, after the former military leader Than Shwe stood down. Bilateral economic ties, regional security and Myanmar's peace process will dominate the agenda, according to diplomats in Nay Pyi Taw and Beijing.

• OPINION

  Myanmar's peace process looks precariously poised

  News, Larry Jagan, Published on 16/07/2016

  » Tomorrow's critical talks between Myanmar's leader, Aung San Suu Kyi and representatives of the armed ethnic groups, who have yet to sign the national ceasefire agreement (NCA), could put paid to the planned "Panglong" peace summit at the end of August. Weeks of preparation have brought the peace process to the brink of a significant break-through.

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