The estranged brother of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi said on Thursday he is making a new bid to sell the lakeside house where the democracy activist turned politician spent 15 years under house arrest. Aung San Oo, who spends most of his time in the United States, submitted an appeal at the supreme […]
How China gets what it wants in Myanmar
May 2, 2018 by
As Myanmar prepares for yet another round of peace talks with ethnic armed groups, all eyes are on China. With all the Western outfits involved in Myanmar’s peace process effectively sidelined, China has emerged as the only outside force that matters due to its substantial leverage over both insurgents and the government. Unlike Western interlocutors, […]
Boris Johnson caught on camera reciting Kipling in Myanmar temple
October 2, 2017 by
The foreign secretary has been accused of “incredible insensitivity” after it emerged he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January. Boris Johnson was inside the Shwedagon Pagoda, the most sacred Buddhist site in the capital Yangon, when he started uttering […]
Myanmar’s golden pearls outshine rivals
August 22, 2016 by
NAYPYITAW — Hillary Clinton wears them, and so does Aung San Suu Kyi. They nearly disappeared for decades under military rule, but the world’s most sought-after pearls are once again to be found in Myanmar. Two international auctions this year — in Hong Kong in March and Naypyitaw in late June — saw traders bid […]
