Ripped from the Headlines

October 9, 2016
Perhaps looking at budget is a good way to get a sense of the Duterte administration’s priorities. The Philippines Star reported back in August that Duterte’s P31 billion (...
October 9, 2016
GABRIELA, leftist women’s party of the Philippines, posted a press release (10/7 on their facebook page, 10/8 on their website) on their position re: the Duterte...
October 8, 2016
In my Ripped from the Headlines assignment, I'd like to look at ethnic conflict in Myanmar and the recent, tangible steps that have been taken to address the many...
October 8, 2016
I wanted to look at what impact, if any, the Panglong Peace Conference had on military-ethnic group relations. As expected, the issue is complicated. Less than a week after...
October 8, 2016
Myanmar, which has suffered phenomenally high levels of forest loss over the last couple decades, is experiencing a major problem of enforcement for its legislative attempts...
October 8, 2016
I said I was going to look at a military perspective of the conflict given the bias of my last source, but I found this article along with a couple others, and I'm going...
October 8, 2016
I said last time that I was going to try and find a Tatmadaw perspective, or justification, for the continued conflict between ethnic groups and the military. The consensus,...

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