Ripped from the Headlines

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,...
October 8, 2016
What a perfect time for this blog post: just yesterday, Obama officially lifted all remaining U.S. imposed sanctions on Myanmar! While the restrictions have been easing over...
October 8, 2016
As the smallest Southeast Asian nation, media coverage of the TPP in Brunei has heavily highlighted the fact that Brunei was one of the first four Southeast Asian nations to...
October 8, 2016
This article from the Philippine Daily Inquirer is explicit in illustrating a national sentiment towards the TPP that other non-signatories like Cambodia and Indonesia share...
October 7, 2016
Since the fish began dying in April, over 1000 children from the province of the fishing community of Ky Ha were unable to return to school following the end of summer....

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