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‘I Want to Tell Women: Don’t Be Afraid of Bodybuilding’
Aye Aye Soe, 24, became the first female Burmese bodybuilder to win a gold medal in a competition. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) Burma’s female bodybuilders have been joining international...
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‘Businesses With Compelling Stories are Suitable to Be Listed’
Ye Min Aung is managing director of Myanmar Agribusiness Public Corporation Ltd. (Photo: Ye Min Aung / Facebook) When the Yangon Stock Exchange launches next year, five public companies will be listed....
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‘We, Animators, Are a Small Group’
Animator Zaw Bo Bo Hein, who won an award at the human rights film festival in Rangoon. (Photo: Hein Htet / The Irrawaddy) Burmese animator Zaw Bo Bo Hein, 30, made “The Seller,” a computer animated...
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‘The Corruption Charges Are a Pretext’
From left to right, Irrawaddy editor Kyaw Zwa Moe speaks with journalist Sithu Aung Myint and political commentator Dr. Yan Myo Thein during an episode of “Dateline Irrawaddy.” In this week’s “Dateline...
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‘Separated by Only a River’
A photograph from Zarni Phyo’s “People of the River,” a photo story on display at Witness Yangon Documentary Arts Space until July 18. Photographers from Burma, Norway and Bangladesh came together...
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‘We Wanted to Convey Through This Film That Nobody Wants Conflict’
A poster for “The Open Sky,” a documentary showing the human impact of the anti-Muslim violence that rocked Meikthila in 2013. (Image: Human Dignity Film Institute) Phyo Zayar Kyaw, 28, is one of the...
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‘Go Straight to the People’
Nai Aye Lwin is a leading member of the Backpack Health Worker Team. (Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) As the former military regime waged war against ethnic armed groups in Burma, local people in rebel-held...
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‘Censorship Changed Our Thinking’
Myanmar writer and human rights activist Ma Thida in her office in Yangon. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) Leading writer and human rights activist Ma Thida recently became the first president of...
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‘Big Media Can’t Cover These Things in Detail, So We Cover Them’
Brang Mai, publisher of the Myitkyina News Journal. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) RANGOON — Brang Mai is the man behind Burma’s first and only newspaper serving the ethnic Kachin population. He...
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‘Burma Must Follow a Global Standard and Match It With Political Will’
From right to left: Shwe Gas Movement director Wong Aung, director-general of the Ministry of Mining Win Htein, a staff of MEITI, and Burma EITI coordinator Zaw Oo during the EITI board meeting in...
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Helping Burma’s Women Entrepreneurs to Take Risks
Project-W’s women entrepreneurs and program manager Josep M. Saura at a workshop in Rangoon. (Photo: Project Hub Yangon) RANGOON — A small group of Burmese women who want to start businesses of their...
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‘There Must be a Mastermind Behind the Conflict’
Oo Hla Saw is a central executive committee member of the Arakan National Party (ANP), the biggest ethnic Arakanese political party in Burma. (Photo: Nyein Zaw / The Irrawaddy) Oo Hla Saw, a central...
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‘Pressure on the Press’
From left, Kyaw Zwa Moe, editor of The Irrawaddy’s English edition, speaks with panelists Pe Myint from People’s Age journal and Ko Thalun Zaung Htet from The Irrawaddy’s Burmese edition, during an...
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‘The Shift From Offline to Online’
Kian Moini is cofounder of Lamudi, an online property portal that launched House.com.mm in Burma. (Photo: Kyaw Hsu Mon / The Irrawaddy) Germany-based property portal Lamudi entered Burma two years ago...
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‘The Plane Crash Has Caused a Change in the Global Political Landscape’
The Irrawaddy’s editor, Aung Zaw, is pictured during the filming of Dateline Irrawaddy. (Photo: The Irrawaddy) In this week’s Dateline Irrawaddy, panelists discussed the downing of a Malaysia Airlines...
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‘Time for an Energy Boost’
The government should encourage local players in the booming energy sector, says U Ken Tun of Parami. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) The Parami Energy Group of Companies is a leading local provider of...
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‘Deeper Change Brings Deeper Resistance’
Tom Malinowski, United States Assistant Secretary of State for Democracy, Human Rights and Labor, recently made his first visit to Burma, leading a delegation of senior officials to Rangoon, Naypyidaw,...
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Why the State ‘Is Still Incredibly Weak’
RANGOON — It has no place on official maps, but parts of Myanmar fall within a geographical zone described by some Southeast Asia scholars as Zomia. Stretching across a massive area of Asia, Zomia is...
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‘In Places of Military Dominance, Women Can Never Be Equal’
Dr. Khin Mar Mar Kyi says women must be allowed to participate more fully in Burma’s ongoing peace process. (Photo: Sai Zaw / The Irrawaddy) Dr. Khin Mar Mar Kyi is an award-winning social...
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‘The Media May Not Have Trust in Me’
Burma’s new Information Minister Ye Htut. (Photo: JPaing / The Irrawaddy) Presidential spokesman Ye Htut took the reins of Burma’s Ministry of Information last week, succeeding former Information...
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