“86 47” is a political phrase interpreted by some, particularly in the context of a 2026 criminal charge against former…
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What’s behind Israel’s plan to move the Bnei Menashe/Chins?
Israel’s 2026 plan to relocate approximately 6,000 Bnei Menashe members from Northeast India (Manipur and Mizoram) by 2030 is driven by a…
Sunset Reflections of a Masala Life
As the sun of my life moves from Asr (evening) toward Maghrib (sunset), I look back not with fear, but…
Death and Faith
By U Aung Tin from Canada (translated and adapted) A respected Myanmar writer, Kyaw Win, on the occasion of his…
Weaponizing Sinophobia: Myanmar’s Military Playbook of Scapegoating Minorities
Myanmar’s military and its allied extremist networks have long relied on a dangerous strategy: weaponizing xenophobia to consolidate power. From…
The Dangerous Gamble of Playing With Fire: Myanmar’s Military, Extremist Cyber-Troops, and the Dragon’s Response
Strategic Analysis — MMNN History rarely announces itself before it repeats. Yet in Myanmar today, the conditions that triggered one…
Strangers in Their Own City: How Chinese Migration Is Quietly Redrawing Myanmar’s Urban Map
Opinion — Analysis by MMNN MANDALAY – There is a particular kind of disorientation that comes not from being lost,…
When Truth Is Arrested: Tin Nyunt, and the Rise of “Low-Class Intellectuals”
MMNN Editorial In today’s Myanmar, it is no longer shocking when soldiers arrest a writer. What is shocking is why…
Five Years On: How Myanmar’s Spring Revolution Was Betrayed From Within
The surrender of young resistance fighters to the SAC is not a story of ideological defeat. It is the inevitable…
The Shrine of the Four Martyr Saints of Shwebo
A Forgotten History of Faith, Sacrifice, and Royal Regret In Shwebo, if one simply asks, “Where is the Dargah of…