Myanmar
How Internet Shutdowns Became a Weapon of Repression
40% more countries cut communications in 2019 over 2018 — and many of the shutdowns lasted longer.
In Myanmar, a Nonprofit Icon Enjoyed Foreign Funding Despite Allegations of Sexual Abuse
The alleged failure by the US embassy and a UN agency to prevent abuses reflects systemic gaps in safeguarding mechanisms, that are common within local nonprofits in the developing world.
This Ice Sculptor to Hollywood Stars Is Facing His Biggest Challenge Yet
Ice sculptor Art Hongpong used America's state-of-the-art technology to sculpt for the likes of Will Smith and Bill Clinton. But what happens when his masterpiece melts?
Burmese Parents Are Holding Fake Funerals to Keep Their Children Safe
These families will do anything to prevent their children from being recruited by the country’s rebel groups.
A UN Official Compared Rohingya Living Conditions to Nazi Concentration Camps
“Let’s call it what it is,” he said.
What It's Like to Be Illegally Gay in Myanmar
And preparing for a drag show.
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Burmese Opium Farmers Make the Best Rice Wine
U Mint Aung, village chief of a tiny community in the opium fields of Eastern Myanmar brings out a clay pot brimming with multi-coloured grains. The thing looks like a trendy smoothie. But it’s home-brewed rice wine.
Tattooed Tribeswomen and the Problem of Photo Tourism in Myanmar
For the Chin women of western Myanmar, outer beauty starts with an inky black, fully tattooed face. But the government has banned the custom, and tourists are flooding in to document the dying tradition.
Myanmar Tries to “whitewash” Its Rohingya Crimes By Jailing Journalists
“The court has rendered itself complicit in the government’s efforts to obscure the campaign of ethnic cleansing against the Rohingya."
U.S. Slaps Sanctions on Myanmar Over Ethnic Cleansing and Other 'Atrocities'
"There must be justice for the victims and those who work to uncover these atrocities, with those responsible held to account for these abhorrent crimes.”
Facebook hired outside group to investigate its role in spreading hate speech in Myanmar
Facebook and WhatsApp have been accused by the U.N. of spreading hate speech that led to ethnic violence against the Rohingya minority.
Two Reuters Journalists in Myanmar Face Prison for Reporting on the Rohingya Slaughter
“Although we are charged, we are not guilty.”
