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Panic gripped Myanmar’s notorious Shwe Kokko scam city in the Myawaddy border town late last night and early this morning as Myanmar government forces and their Karen allies, the Border Guard Force (BGF), raided the city in a renewed attempt to crack... [1]
The Shwe Kokko crime hub, which was initially pitched as a large-scale mixed commercial, residential and leisure development project known as “China Town,” sprung up nearly a decade ago on the bank of the Moei River on the Thailand-Myanmar border. [2]
NAYPYITAW—Former Lower House Speaker U Shwe Mann said he no longer calls on military strongman U Than Shwe, the leader of the military regime that ruled the country from 1998 to 2010. [3]
Your Thoughts … ခင်ပွန်းဖြစ်သူ ရွှေထူးနဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ရွှေမှုံရတီ (ဓာတ်ပုံ - Shwe Mhone Yati's Facebook) Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leadin... [4]
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests. [5]
This is the tenth and final installment in the series The Dictators, which delves into the lives and careers of Burma’s two most infamous military chiefs and the cohorts that surrounded them. [6]
Dictators never really retire. Former strongman Senior General Than Shwe is officially retired, but he still exerts an influence. [7]
The political temperature is rising again. This time the target is Shwe Mann, a close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi and head of the Commission for the Assessment of Legal Affairs and Special Issues within the Union Parliament. [8]
Panic gripped Myanmar’s notorious Shwe Kokko scam city in the Myawaddy border town late last night and early this morning as Myanmar government forces and their Karen allies, the Border Guard Force (BGF), raided the city in a renewed attempt to crack
The Shwe Kokko crime hub, which was initially pitched as a large-scale mixed commercial, residential and leisure development project known as “China Town,” sprung up nearly a decade ago on the bank of the Moei River on the Thailand-Myanmar border.
NAYPYITAW—Former Lower House Speaker U Shwe Mann said he no longer calls on military strongman U Than Shwe, the leader of the military regime that ruled the country from 1998 to 2010.
Your Thoughts … ခင်ပွန်းဖြစ်သူ ရွှေထူးနဲ့ သရုပ်ဆောင် ရွှေမှုံရတီ (ဓာတ်ပုံ - Shwe Mhone Yati's Facebook) Your Thoughts … No Result View All Result Founded in 1993 by a group of Myanmar journalists living in exile in Thailand, The Irrawaddy is a leadin
In politics, so the saying goes, there are no permanent enemies and no permanent friends—only permanent interests.
This is the tenth and final installment in the series The Dictators, which delves into the lives and careers of Burma’s two most infamous military chiefs and the cohorts that surrounded them.
Dictators never really retire. Former strongman Senior General Than Shwe is officially retired, but he still exerts an influence.
The political temperature is rising again. This time the target is Shwe Mann, a close ally of Aung San Suu Kyi and head of the Commission for the Assessment of Legal Affairs and Special Issues within the Union Parliament.
RANGOON — It’s rare in Burma for a political leader to leave office of their own accord, rarer still for an ousted leader to return to political life.
Burma’s outgoing Union Parliament Speaker Shwe Mann told the media on Friday that he arranged the post-election meeting between ex-dictator Than Shwe and Aung San Suu Kyi in December.