The potential for Army-Police rivalry in Myanmar
Wednesday
3rd February
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Since December 2015, a rumour has been circulating in Yangon that the Commander-in-Chief of Myanmar’s armed…
Andrew Selth
Why Myanmar’s rumor mill is always spinning
Friday
26th February
2016
ANDREW SELTH | There is something about Myanmar that encourages conspiracy theories and wild rumors. Not only does the…
Myanmar foreign policy under Aung San Suu Kyi
Wednesday
30th March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Last November, the National League for Democracy won a landslide electoral victory in Myanmar. It formed…
The rats of Rangoon
Wednesday
30th March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | From plague, to meals, to piles and piles of poo — Andrew Selth on the former…
Democracy in Myanmar: Who can claim victory?
Thursday
31st March
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Paraphrasing the Roman historian Tacitus, US President John F Kennedy said in 1961 that ‘victory has…
Kipling’s Burma and Myanmar’s Kipling
Tuesday
26th April
2016
ANDREW SELTH | He knew little about the country, but colonised the West’s imagination about it. The Indian Institute…
Burma after forty years
Thursday
28th April
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Burma’s recent history, of turmoil and change (including the 1989 renaming to Myanmar), makes it a…
Colonial Burma, as seen through collectible cards
Thursday
12th May
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Over the centuries, popular perceptions of Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, have been remarkably consistent. The…
Colonial Burma, history and phillumeny
Tuesday
24th May
2016
ANDREW SELTH | Andrew Selth discusses how matchbox labels provide a glimpse into the culture of colonial Burma. In…
Old Burma hands write on the ‘odd man out in Asia’
Monday
6th June
2016
ANDREW SELTH | The recent release of former ambassador Trevor Wilson’s book, Eyewitness to Early Reform in Myanmar, prompts…