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WASHINGTON / JAKARTA — US Secretary of State John Kerry will seek greater cooperation from China and Southeast Asia’s main Muslim states, Indonesia and Malaysia, in the campaign against Islamic State and staunching the flow of foreign fighters to the... [1]
This article further develops an idea I had briefly discussed in an earlier piece written for New Mandala in February 2017. [2]
RANGOON — Burma’s Constitutional Tribunal informed Parliament on Monday that the articles of the recently passed Referendum Law that granted white card holders voting rights are in violation of the Constitution. [3]
TOUNGUP, Arakan State — Beating a path into the heart of domestic religious tensions in recent years, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to the impoverished voters of Burma’s troubled Arakan State on Friday in an impassioned speech promising... [4]
JAKARTA—Southeast Asian defense ministers called for an end to the Myanmar crisis and to the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday as they gathered for talks that will include meetings with regional counterparts and the Pentagon chief. [5]
RANGOON — Regional security experts say it is possible that some militant Rohingyas have sought support from Indonesian hardline Muslim organizations, but they dismiss claims that an armed Rohingya insurgency is under way in western Burma’s Arakan St... [6]
Nationalism is on the rise again; the 21st century has not escaped it. All the great powers’ leaders—Trump, Putin, Xi and Modi alike—have played an instrumental role in reviving nationalism. [7]
RANGOON — Leading Buddhist monks of the nationalist 969 movement said they have been holding sermons in several townships in northern Arakan State, which has been wracked by bloody violence between Arakanese Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim minority... [8]
WASHINGTON / JAKARTA — US Secretary of State John Kerry will seek greater cooperation from China and Southeast Asia’s main Muslim states, Indonesia and Malaysia, in the campaign against Islamic State and staunching the flow of foreign fighters to the
This article further develops an idea I had briefly discussed in an earlier piece written for New Mandala in February 2017.
RANGOON — Burma’s Constitutional Tribunal informed Parliament on Monday that the articles of the recently passed Referendum Law that granted white card holders voting rights are in violation of the Constitution.
TOUNGUP, Arakan State — Beating a path into the heart of domestic religious tensions in recent years, opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi appealed to the impoverished voters of Burma’s troubled Arakan State on Friday in an impassioned speech promising
JAKARTA—Southeast Asian defense ministers called for an end to the Myanmar crisis and to the Israel-Hamas war on Wednesday as they gathered for talks that will include meetings with regional counterparts and the Pentagon chief.
RANGOON — Regional security experts say it is possible that some militant Rohingyas have sought support from Indonesian hardline Muslim organizations, but they dismiss claims that an armed Rohingya insurgency is under way in western Burma’s Arakan St
Nationalism is on the rise again; the 21st century has not escaped it. All the great powers’ leaders—Trump, Putin, Xi and Modi alike—have played an instrumental role in reviving nationalism.
RANGOON — Leading Buddhist monks of the nationalist 969 movement said they have been holding sermons in several townships in northern Arakan State, which has been wracked by bloody violence between Arakanese Buddhists and the Rohingya Muslim minority
RANGOON — According to Burma’s government, the Rohingya do not exist. Denied citizenship by an internationally criticized 1982 law, the stateless “Bengali immigrants” have in the past faced pogroms, persecution from the Burmese government and more re
SRINAGAR/ISLAMABAD—The disputed region of Kashmir was thrown into further turmoil in the early hours of Monday as regional leaders said they feared being arrested and Indian officials imposed restrictions in the city of Srinagar and suspended mobile