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Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts
Showing posts with label newspapers. Show all posts

Friday, 24 February 2012

Unemployment in Myanmar


This post presents a an article from 7 Day News, February 23, 2012, p.11.

Sunday, 19 February 2012

Deportation of Myanmar migrant workers


This post presents an article from 7 Day News, February 16, 2012, p. 19.

Sunday, 1 January 2012

Unemployment in Myanmar



This post presents an article from 7 Day News Journal, December 29, 2011, p. 1 and 12.

Thursday, 29 December 2011

Passports for migrant workers



This post presents an article from 7 Day News Journal, December 29, 2011, p. 1 and 12.

Saturday, 24 December 2011

Women workers abroad


This post presents an article from The Irrawaddy online from Saturday, December 24, 2011.

Friday, 23 December 2011

Registration of migrant workers in Thailand



This post presents an article from 7 Day News Journal, December 22, 2011, vol. 10, no. 40, p. 4.

Tuesday, 24 May 2011

Flooding of farm fields in Sagaing (2)


This post presents the second page (the image on the right below) of an article on a recent flood in Sagaing Region taken from 7 Day News Journal, April 28, 2011. The section of the article in the image on the left is take from page 3. The section of the article in the image on the right is take from page 12.

Monday, 23 May 2011

Flooding of farm fields in Sagaing (1)


This post presents the first page (the image on the left below) of an article on a recent flood in Sagaing Region taken from 7 Day News Journal, April 28, 2011. The section of the article in the image on the left is take from page 3. The section of the article in the image on the right is take from page 12.

Sunday, 22 May 2011

DKBA loans


This post presents a short article on loans to the DKBA from the Myanma Agricultural Development Bank. The article comes from 7 Day News Journal, April 28, 2011. The column on the left in the image below is from page 1 and the column on the right is from page 6.

Saturday, 21 May 2011

Reforming Myanmar's agriculture policy (3)


This post presents the third (and final) column of an editorial on Myanmar's agricultural policy that was included in The Voice Weekly, May 16-22, p.30.


Thursday, 19 May 2011

Reforming Myanmar's agriculture policy (2)


This post presents the second column of an editorial on Myanmar's agricultural policy that was included in The Voice Weekly, May 16-22, p.30.



Monday, 16 May 2011

Political parties and peasant associations (2)


This post presents the second page (the image on the right below) of two pages of a recent article on the NLD's decision to form a farmers' association.

Sunday, 15 May 2011

Political parties and peasant associations


This post presents a recent article on the NLD's decision to form a "farmers' association". The English text below is a translation of the first of the article's two pages (the image on the left below). Related English language articles are available here and here and here.

Saturday, 14 May 2011

Environmental conservation in Bogalay Township


This post presents an article from The Voice Weekly, April 25 - May 1, page 15, regarding NGO projects aimed at environmental conservation in the area of Beautiful Lady Island (Mainma-hla-kyon), Bogalay Township, Irrawaddy Region.

Class conflict in a classic Myanmar film (2)


This post presents a translation of the second of two pages (the image on right below) of a review of the classic Myanmar film Thingyan Moe taken from the Myanmar Times website.

Myanmar's market economic system


This post contains a short article about the content of Myanmar president U Thein Sein's first speech in the new parliament about the country's transition to a market-oriented economic system. It comes from The Voice Weekly, April 25 - May 1, page 3.

Thursday, 5 May 2011

Class conflict in a classic Myanmar film (1)


This post presents a translation of the first of two pages (the image on left below) of a review of the classic Myanmar film Thingyan Moe taken from the Myanmar Times website.

Wednesday, 4 May 2011

The weakness of agricultural credit in Myanmar (5)


This post contains the second and final page of an article on the challenges of weak credit for farmers in Myanmar. It comes from page 30 of 7 Day News, April 28, 2011. The rest of the article will be translated in a subsequent post.

Tuesday, 3 May 2011

The weakness of agricultural credit in Myanmar (4)


This post contains the fifth column of an article on the challenges of weak credit for farmers in Myanmar. It comes from page 29 of 7 Day News, April 28, 2011. The rest of the article will be translated in a subsequent post.

Monday, 2 May 2011

The weakness of agricultural credit in Myanmar (3)


This post contains the fourth column of an article on the challenges of weak credit for farmers in Myanmar. It comes from page 29 of 7 Day News, April 28, 2011. The rest of the article will be translated in a subsequent post.