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  • Myanmar: Peace in Kachin State?
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee.    ·   30 Apr, 2014    ·    #4414    ·    Commentary    
    Ongoing conflicts between the Myanmarese army and the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) since 2011 have questioned all the peace deals signed between these two parties. The Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), the political wing of the KIA, had sig ...
  • Northeast India in BIMSTEC: Economic linkages with Myanmar and Bangladesh
    Leonora Juergens.    ·   23 Apr, 2014    ·    #4404    ·    Commentary    
    During the third Summit of the Bay of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sectoral Technical and Economic Cooperation (BIMSTEC) in Naypyidaw, Myanmar in March 2014, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh urged for an early conclusion of the BIMSTEC Free Trade Agreeme ...
  • Myanmar’s Energy Sector: Inviting the World to its Shore
    Vibhanshu Shekhar.    ·   03 Apr, 2014    ·    #4368    ·    Commentary    
    In a bid to bolster the country’s efforts to open up to the world, Myanmar, on March 26, invited 13 oil companies from all over the world to operate in oil and gas explorations in 20 offshore blocs off the coast of Myanmar in the Bay of Benga ...
  • IPCS Special Commentary
    Transition in Myanmar: Regional Implications & Future Directions
    Ranjit Gupta.    ·   06 Mar, 2014    ·    #4325    ·    Commentary    
    Are the changes underway in Myanmar revolutionary or evolutionary? Since the governmental structure and the methodology of governance in Myanmar since April 2012, when the transition began, represents an utterly drastic change from what had existed ...
  • China, Myanmar, and the Myitsone Dam: Uncertain Future
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee.    ·   31 Jan, 2014    ·    #4281    ·    Commentary    
    The unresolved status of the presently-suspended Myitsone Dam project in Myanmar’s Kachin state has the potential to derail Beijing-Yangon bilateral relations. How did this come to be? And more importantly, what are the implications of fallou ...
  • Connecting Asia: South Asia as a Strategic Bridge
    D Suba Chandran.    ·   13 Feb, 2014    ·    #4306    ·    Commentary    
    So much is happening around South Asia today; if the region is smart in understanding the nature of these changes and makes use of its potential and geographic location, it could become a strategic bridge between four huge land masses – West ...
  • Myanmar: Are the Infrastructure and Economic Reforms Adequate?
    Kuhan Madhan.    ·   31 Jan, 2014    ·    #4278    ·    Commentary    
    With chairing the covetous ASEAN group for 2014, the extravagant ceremonies of the 27th South East Asian (SEA) games drum aloud Myanmar’s return from isolation. Myanmar, given its strategic location as the link between the Bay of Bengal and E ...
  • Myanmar: Why is the Clergy Angry?
    Rajeshwari Krishnamurthy.    ·   31 Jan, 2014    ·    #4279    ·    Commentary    
    A recent UN statement demanding an impartial probe into the killings of Muslims by Buddhists, in Myanmar, has once again brought the issue of the Rohingyas – widely accepted as the most persecuted minority group – to the fore. The alarm ...
  • BCIM Economic Corridor: A Giant Step towards Integration
    Harun ur Rashid.    ·   12 Nov, 2013    ·    #4172    ·    Commentary    
    Lord Dalhousie, India’s Governor General from 1848 to 1856, once dreamed of a ‘route’ in South Asia – a railway line from Singapore to Constantinople and beyond, with a branch track meandering up to Lhasa (Tibet). Another Go ...
  • Myanmar: Kachin State and the State of Peace
    Aparupa Bhattacherjee.    ·   11 Nov, 2013    ·    #4171    ·    Commentary    
    The ongoing clash in southern Kachin state has questioned the success of the new peace deal that was signed between the Myanmarese government and Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO). The peace deal, which was signed in October 2013, was expected t ...
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