18th June 2021 Below is a press release from the US embassy in Yangon. It confirms the devastation I reported a few days ago. It is nice to see that sources are still holding good. The activists are striking back in Yangon at selected targets. An army truck with regime
Society is made up of lots of different family units: some are close and strong, others disjointed and alienated. My father once naïvely attempted to heal a long standing family rift by getting parties who had not spoken to each other for years together to talk, hopefully forgive and let
17th June 2021 We have an update on the Managing Editor of Frontier who was arrested at Yangon airport in May. Frontier Myanmar’s managing editor Danny Fenster today appeared in a special court in Yangon’s Insein Prison to face a charge under section 505-A of the Penal Code,
Geoffrey Miller Victoria University Of Wellington – Te Herenga Waka democracyproject.nz Geoffrey Miller is an international analyst at the Democracy Project. He has lived and travelled extensively in the Middle East and is a fluent Arabic speaker. The latest “Perceptions of Asia” survey from the Asia New Zealand Foundation, released
15th June 2021 The monsoon has started in Myanmar and is hitting IDP camps in the jungle with devastating effect. Meanwhile, manoeuvring is going on in the background as the Junta tries to get International acknowledgement of its legitimacy. This has implications beyond the region for the west. The Myanmar
This year’s G7 summit should be of special interest to New Zealanders, not because of who was there and what was discussed — but who and what wasn’t. The G7 itself includes, of course, Britain, the US, Canada and Japan. This year Australia was invited for the second time
14th June 2021 While the destruction goes on, the global players are struggling to find a resolution to the problems. The US is putting pressure on the ASEAN nations who run the risk of alienating the US and slipping into China’s orbit. Myanmar is heading for failed state status.
IINZ israelinstitute.nz The Israel Institute of New Zealand is calling on the New Zealand government to stop funding hate and incitement. Co-director, Dr David Cumin says “A recent EU-funded report has shown what has been clear for decades: the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in Palestinian Authority-
13th June 2021 The destruction of facilities essential for everyday life continues and in Chin State, one of the coffee processing factories supported by the DaNa Facility was destroyed. The DaNa facility is a 5-year programme supported by UKaid and won 2nd prize in one of the business planning competitions.
While many of us felt the world wide response to Covid-19 was grossly exaggerated, we were probably willing to cut the authorities a reasonable amount of slack. Taking it too lightly was always going to be a hiding to nowhere if it all went bad. Just witness the garbage that’
12th June 2021 In the last couple of days, I have mentioned the start of the scorched earth policy and the gradual development of the guerrilla action against the Junta. Well, the guerrilla action is beginning to have an effect. Unlike previous anti-government activity where the administrators, the military and
Eric Lendrum amgreatness.com Eric Lendrum graduated from the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he was the Secretary of the College Republicans and the founding chairman of the school’s Young Americans for Freedom chapter. The Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) released a statement confirming the intelligence that the Palestinian
11th June 2021 There are reports of a bomb blast outside the offices of Myanmar Economic Bank in Ahlone township, Yangon. These blasts are becoming more regular, with the number of attacks being minimal at the moment, but enough to cause uncertainty in the minds of the authorities. They are
