Analysis

Ethnic Kachin people wave their hands at a ceremony to mark the International Day of Peace in Yangon

What’s the price for peace in Kachin?

While Burma’s quasi-civilian government has come up with yet another proposal to hold talks with the Kachin Independence Army, the Burmese army is trying to bring the recalcitrant Kachins to their knees once and for all

No progress without engagement on Burma’s nuclear front

While Thein Sein says he plans to sign the International Atomic Energy Agency Additional Protocol, the government still needs to be transparent and cooperative with the agency

Myanmar's President Sein talks during his first news conference since his re-appointment as head of ruling party Union Solidarity and Development Party at presidential palace in Naypyitaw

International praise and grassroots realities

Although President Thein Sein has been awarded several prizes from international organisations for instituting reforms, the draconian laws that were used to persecute activists are still on the books while the government continues to harass and arrest protestors