News Features on Burma & Burmese issues
Myanmar Spring Chronicle — October 28 Perspective (MoeMaKa), October 29, 2026 ASEAN Chair’s Foreign Minister Begins Visit to Myanmar Philippine Foreign Secretary Maria Theresa Lazaro, representing the Philippines as the 2026 rotating chair of ASEAN, began a three-day visit to…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle — October 27 Perspective (MoeMaKa), October 28, 2026 Tensions Between Ethnic Organizations and Communities Taking on the Character of Ethnic Conflict On October 23, the Shan State Joint Action Committee (SSJAC) issued a statement titled “Strong Opposition…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle — October 26 Perspective (MoeMaKa), October 27, 2026 Aung San Suu Kyi Is Back (Or Is She?) A Political Voice Silent for More Than Five Years Reports have emerged that Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who has…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle — October 25 Perspective (MoeMaKa), October 26, 2026 Does Ethnic Unity Now Require More Than Military Alliances? Looking at Myanmar’s current political situation and armed conflict, it is becoming increasingly clear that forming military alliances and building…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 24 (MoeMaKa), October 25, 2026 Poverty in Myanmar Is No Longer Merely an Economic Problem In Myanmar, poverty has reached a point where it can no longer be measured only by low income,…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 22 (MoeMaKa), October 23, 2026 Did Asian Values Change According to Western Dreams? Today, I would like to discuss whether the values upheld by Asia and the expectations of the West can actually…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 21 (MoeMaKa), October 22, 2026 The Myanmar Military’s Offensives and the Battlefronts Where It Faces Resistance The Myanmar military, which seized power on February 1, 2021, found itself facing renewed attacks from several…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 20 (MoeMaKa), October 21, 2026 Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar Politics On October 19, a social media account identifying itself as the spokesperson for the coup regime’s Presidential Office announced that two…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 19 (MoeMaKa), October 20, 2026 Myanmar’s Armed Conflict and Excessive Gold Mining Colonel Naw Bu, spokesperson for the Kachin Independence Army (KIA), told BBC Burmese that anyone with objections or concerns about gold…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 17 (MoeMaKa), October 18, 2026 Signs That Sittwe May Be Slipping Away: The Military Situation in and Around Rakhine State’s Capital The Arakan Army (AA) has been gradually advancing toward Sittwe, the capital…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 16 (MoeMaKa), October 17, 2026 A Thai Political Scholar’s Assessment of Myanmar’s Revolution Thitinan Pongsudhirak, a professor of international relations at the Faculty of Political Science at Chulalongkorn University in Thailand, has written…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 15 (MoeMaKa), October 16, 2026 Myanmar Kyat Depreciates Amid Growing Instability, Raising Concerns Over Rising Consumer Prices In recent days, the Myanmar kyat has depreciated significantly against major foreign currencies, including the US…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 14 (MoeMaKa), October 15, 2026 The Meaning of “Peace” and Myanmar’s Civil War In modern Myanmar politics, the word “peace” has come to mean something quite different from its original definition. Traditionally, peace…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 13 (MoeMaKa), October 14, 2026 Myanmar’s Civil War, Soaring Commodity Prices, and the Limits of Public Resilience One of the health-related stories making headlines in recent days concerns the military authorities’ decision to…
Myanmar Spring Chronicle – Scenes from October 12 (MoeMaKa), October 13, 2026 Myanmar’s Civil War, Soaring Commodity Prices, and the Limits of Public Resilience A Facebook news page called Burma Voice has reported that transporting Chinese-made consumer goods from Muse,…
