Exclusive photos of Myanmar from author Daniel Combs
Daniel Combs spent the past six years studying Myanmar’s ethnic conflicts. The result: Until the World Shatters, the first in depth reporting on Myanmar’s jade war and the largest… Read more »
Columbia Journalism Students organize a book drive for detained Reuters journalists in Myanmar
This past December, Wa Lone and Kyaw Soe Oo, two Reuters journalists, were unjustly detained in Myanmar following their coverage of the humanitarian crisis caused by ethnic cleansing of Rohingya Muslims in… Read more »
80 years after publication, George Orwell’s Burmese Days wins Burma’s highest literary prize
Writing in The Irrawaddy, Kyaw Phyo Tha reports that the Burmese Ministry of Information named the new translation of Burmese Days the winner of the 2012 National Literary Award’s informative… Read more »
Myanmar opens doors to book festival
The AP reported last week that as Myanmar continues to reform and relax its laws on censorship, it launched a book festival over the weekend. Held in Yangon, the Irrawaddy… Read more »