By Murray Hiebert The beginning of the monsoon rains in the Bay of Bengal and Andaman Sea, coupled with the international spotlight on human traffickers in the region, appears to have slowed the flight of Muslim Rohingya from Myanmar in…
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Thailand Has a Chance to Lead on Rohingya Boatpeople Crisis
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CogitAsia Podcast: Southeast Asia’s Floating Refugees
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The Leaderboard: Charles Maung Bo
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Burma Preview: The People to Watch in 2013
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By Aung Din [Editor’s Note: Key players will shape Burma in 2013, for better or worse. As a guest contributor to cogitASIA, Aung Din will examine their current role in Burma, and their potential impact in the coming year, in…
Conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine state: Lessons from Indonesia
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By Lynn Kuok The conflict in Myanmar’s western Rakhine state bordering Bangladesh threatens to derail the country’s attempts to break with its authoritarian past and move towards a democratic future. It has, at its roots, the policies of successive Myanmar…
By the Numbers: Human Security in Southeast Asia
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Human security conditions continue to be a major concern across Southeast Asia, and this week we take a look at migrant workers, refugees, and other transnational flows of people across the region. The International Labor Organization (ILO) on January 9…
The Leaderboard: Aye Maung
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Who is he? Dr. Aye Maung is chairman of the Rakhine Nationalities Development Party (RNDP) and a member of parliament of the Union of Myanmar representing Rakhine state in western Myanmar. Although the RNDP was only formed in 2010, Aye…