| Behind Closed Door |
Htwe Myint talked about the need for democracy. It was 1988. When his friends from Rangoon University decided to march down the streets of the Burmese capital to protest against the military government, Htwe Myint joined them without hesitation. |
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One of the greatest obstacles to assisting victims of torture and ending this abhorrent practice is public ignorance about the nature of the problem. |
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Contemporary poet and literary scholar Min Thu Wun has commented that modern Burmese literature and political thought would be impossible to imagine without the works of Kodaw Hmaing. |
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Thailand’s recent Senate elections were a test of the country’s new democratic constitution. The results reveal that many challenges still lie ahead writes an observer. |
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Pyei Lwin Nyeinchan examines the Buddha’s most auspicious teaching and its place in Burmese culture. |
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Around A.D. 100 the Mon people of what is now lower Burma were said to have established contact with traders from India, from whom they imported astrology, political ideas, and above all, the art of writing. |
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