In a new book, Singaporean anthropologist Andrew Ong looks at life under the Wa Army and the nature of the group’s relationships with the Myanmar military and China.
A new book explores the controversial life of a Kokang legend who pioneered the opium trade in the Golden Triangle and played a decades-long role in the region’s shadowy politics.
A new book by Hugo Slim analyses the current state of humanitarianism and should be required reading for aid agencies in Myanmar.
A new book details how Beijing has built a media and information empire that seeks to influence countries around Asia and the rest of the world.
Self-serving accounts by insiders are short on accuracy but offer some insight into the military’s blinkered view of its role in politics and national security.
The military regime’s campaign of terror means more and more people are being driven from their homes.
U Soe Thane, once hailed as the int’l face of U Thein Sein’s 2011 reforms, writes in his latest book that the military should have overthrown the NLD govt much...
A new book furthers our understanding of the oft-maligned, border-straddling ethnic group’s culture and history, and its troubled relationship with the Chinese state.
A US author’s account of the challenges facing a Kachin activist/businessman and a Bamar photojournalist takes on added resonance in the wake of the Feb. 1 military coup.
The 32 conversations in ‘Burma’s Voices of Freedom’ by Alan Clements reflect the moral and spiritual greatness of those fighting totalitarianism in Myanmar.
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