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शी हजूर! म्यांमार के लिए ‘नए दौर’ में पुरानी शराब

म्यांमार उस समय बेल्ट एंड रोड इनीशिएटिव (बीआरआई) में एक तरह से शामिल हो गया था, जब मई 2017 में आंग सान....

February 18, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , New Era , Xi Hajoor! , Hearts and Minds Investments , म्यांमार. Xi Jinping visits Myanmar

Myanmar Round Up: January 2020 (A round up of selected English open source reports on Myanmar)

Jaideep Chanda Article

Myanmar charged into the New Year with high profile events dominating January 2020, viz. the visit by Xi Jinping; publication of the Independent Commission of Enquiry (ICOE) Report and the International Court of Justice (ICJ) interim verdict. In addi....

February 14, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Xi Jinping , ICOE , ICJ Interim , Japan Myanmar Relations

Myanmar Round Up: December 2019

Aakriti Vinayak Article

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s spirited though controversial visit to the International Court of Justice (ICJ), The Hague, to defend her nation, its armed forces and its conduct leading to the Rohingya Crisis, was the predominant event in December. Interna....

January 29, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar , Peace , Rohingya issue , Neighbourhood studies , ICJ verdict , Arakan army

Xi Hajoor ! Old Wine in the ‘New Era’ for Myanmar

Jaideep Chanda Article

Background

Myanmar effectively boarded the BRI when Aung San Suu Kyi attended the First Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation in Beijing in May 2017. President Xi Jinping even acknowledged Myanmar in the context of the BRI in ....

January 22, 2020 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , New Era , Xi Jinping visits Myanmar , Xi Hajoor! , Documents Signed , Hearts and Minds Investments

VIF Delegation Visit to Myanmar

A delegation from VIF led by Dr. Arvind Gupta, Director and comprising of Lt Gen (Retd) Ravi Sawhney, Amb (Retd) Gautam Mukhopadhaya, Dr Sreeradha Datta and Col Jaideep Chanda visited Myanmar from 9 – 12 December 2019. The delegation interacted....

January 02, 2020 Conference , Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Visit to Myanmar , MISS , Rohingya , UEHRD , Human Rights Commission , Foreign Affairs , MIPS

Digital Empowerment of Myanmar

Radhika Daga Article

Introduction

On Oct 1, 2019, Myanmar celebrated “U-day”, to mark the official transition from its homegrown digital font Zawgyi (pronounced as “zaw-jee”) to a unified font conforming to the international standards of “Unicode�....

December 30, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Myanmar , technology , Cyber-security , Digitalisation

Myanmar Round Up: November 2019

Aakriti Vinayak Article

November saw Myanmar come under coordinated international legal offensive with three cases filed against it in a span of four days, centered around the Rohingya crisis. Internally, the peace process remains stalled and the skirmishes between the Arak....

December 10, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Article , Rohingya issue , Myanmar rebel armies , Myanmar clashes , Myanmar peace

Myanmar Round Up: October 2019

Jaideep Chanda Article

The irony of the democratic process in the ‘imperfect’ democracy that is Myanmar, is the military attempting to use the democratic mechanisms to elbow out the modicum of civilian control that exists! Slowly, but surely, the upcoming ele....

November 21, 2019 Myanmar , Indian Ocean Region , Article , democracy in Myanmar , ethnic armed groups in Myanmar , Rohingiya problem

Rohingya Refugee Children : Que Sara Sara?

Dr Sreeradha Datta Commentary

A recent visit to a Rohingya camp near Cox bazar at Samlapore in Bangladesh revealed a reality that had been known about but not quite understood nor realised its full implications till the prevailing conditions for were seen. As is well documen....

November 18, 2019 Neighbourhood Studies , Myanmar , Commentary , Rohingiya refugees