Category: Current

Current Issues & News on Burma & Burmese people with the sub sections – News, Feature, Interview, Photo-News, Op-Ed and so on

Scene after One Month and 10th day after the military coup in Burma

(MoeMaKa) March 12, 2021 Among the community on the street today, people were found discussing how to put gas in a bottle and how to make it strong explosive. Protesters, who have suffered brutal beatings, are beginning to consider hand-to-hand…

Scene after one month and ninth day of the military coup in Burma

(MoeMaKa) March 11, 2021 The main news headline for March 11 was that the NLD Education Network Leader, Zaw Myat Lin, 46, had died under detention on March 9 told by Military to family members. His body retrieved from Military…

Reviving Myanmar’s Precarious Peace: EAOs Perspective by Naw Eh Htoo Hae, Saw Tha Wah

Reviving Myanmar’s Precarious Peace: EAOs Perspective by Naw Eh Htoo Hae, Saw Tha Wah 21 November 2018 The two largest EAOs (Ethnic Armed Organizations) signatories to the NCA (Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement), KNU (Karen National Union) and RCSS (Restoration Council of…

Women addicts searching for help help have few options By Khin Sandar Myint / Myanmar Now

Women addicts searching for help help have few options By Khin Sandar Myint / Myanmar Now  A former female drug addict now back to her vegetable plantation site. (Photo: Khin Sandar Myint)   Kyaukme/Shan state— Ma Kaut* started using heroin…

In Defense of Buddhism and the Immigration Problems in our Country By Kyaw Lat

In Defense of Buddhism and the Immigration Problems in our Country  By Kyaw Lat   With the concept and conviction that the world’s major religions must have some positive contributions to the humanity, I have been studying other world’s major…

May Nyane opens Burmese Language School

May Nyane opens Burmese Language School (MoeMaKa, April 18th 2017)   May Nyane , one of Burmese writer and contributor to MoeMaKa News Group from Maryland starts her own Burmese languare school online. On her leaflet, she stated as follows;…

Tin Maung Htwe – Media screw-up led to NLD’s supporters furious

      U Htin Kyaw, a longtime confidant of Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was made known on Thursday as one of the three candidates, to become Myanmar’s next president.     Albeit a low profile player, U Htin…

Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries

(At Arts Assembly) Dr Khin Maung Win – The Eighth International Conference on Science and Mathematics Education in Developing Countries The conference has held at the Arts Assembly Hall of Yangon University, from December 4 th to 6 th .…

100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015 by Junior Win

(U Bagalay (Shwe Ta Lay) , U Hain Zun, U Ba Gyan, and U Phay Thein.) 100th Anniversary of Burmese Cartoon in 2015 Early forms of cartoons art can be seen in the cave drawing. In Burma we could see…

A Day at The Noble-Myanmar Literary Festival 2015 by Junior Win

  (National Theatre at Myoma School Road.) From 17th January to 19th January of 2015, the Noble-Myanmar Literary Festival was held at National Theatre, Myoma School(Kyaung) Road, Rangoon. It celebrates the Burmese writers, poets, and cartoonists, refers to joyful gatherings of people. Number of…

Unburdening of U Pyinnyathami’s feeling (Monk’s experience in Saffron Movement)

Unburdening of U Pyinnyathami’s feeling Interview by Ashin Zawana (posted 2010) (Personal experience of a monk in Saffon Movement 2007 in Burma)   U Pyinnyathami who’s been residing now at Shwe Wa Yaung monastery in New Delhi, India is one…

The Saffron Democratization by Rev. Larbathami (M.A.)

The Saffron Democratization by Rev. Larbathami  (M.A.) (Anniversary article for 6 years of Saffron Revolution)  The Third Wave and Christianity Political Science Professor Samuel Huntington of Harvard University did not regard Buddhism highly in the global democratization process. He did…

Representation of Women in Media by Pwint Phyu Nandar

  Does media influence society or is it society that influences media? Social and cultural theorists have argued for both sides of the debate in regards to this question. Perhaps, instead of thinking media and society as either only a…

The Heritage of Wonder and Pride (Junior Win)

The Heritage of Wonder and Pride ‘Burma, The Land of Pagodas’ as my grandmother written, we will find pagodas wherever we go. Pagodas play a memorable part in the life of a Burmese Buddhist. We have been taught that wherever…

The Legacy of Knowledge by Junior Win

  (Photo – I chose two photos of U Tin Oo (General Thura Tin Oo, retired general and former commander in chief of the armed forces of Union of Burma) and U Win Tin (Journalist and also known as a…