Started in April 2020, this blog is about Myanmar and Indo-Pacific affairs.
Read more...Spenden für Myanmar?
Weltweit steht Myanmar nicht in der Gunst der Spendengemeinschaft. Die Menschen des Landes aber sind nach dem Erdbeben darauf angewiesen. updated 04/22/2025. English Version below “Myanmar belegt nicht den ersten Platz, wenn es um die verschiedenen Notsituationen in der Welt geht”, sagte Marcoluigi Corsi / Koordinator für Humanitäre Angelegenheiten in Myanmar am 1. April in […]
Read more...Hilfe für Myanmar und Thailand
updated 04/03/2025 – English version below Noch gestern bat der State Administration Council und namentlich Gen. Sen. Min Aung Hlaing angesichts der katastrophalen Lage in Myanmar die Welt um Hilfe. Es folgten starke Reaktionen: Wie ausführlich in den internationalen Medien berichtet, trafen chinesische und russische Spezialteams bereits Freitag Abend und Samstag früh in Myanmar ein, […]
Read more...Myanmar: “Hit by a powerful earthquake of 7.7 magnitude”
Shocks in Thailand and Myanmar, tremors in India and China A high-rise building in Bangkok on March 28, 2025 after an earthquake hit Myanmar with the epicenter 1000 km away from Thailand’s capital. There, a “disaster area” was declared. video: via signal. After a strong earthquake hit Myanmar today, it is not exaggerated to call […]
Read more...BRICS+ and Myanmar: Putting a Wish in Ivan’s Basket?
updated February, 8, 2025 BRICS+ is an increasingly powerful association made up of countries mainly from the Global South. Myanmar, in the midst of its situation of internal war, on the long run is standing in line for membership. What are its chances of acceptance? On the one hand, Myanmar has strong advocates in Russia, […]
Read more...Welthungerhilfe – ‘Access, the main challenge is access to the growing number of people in need.’
Working as an INGO in today’s Myanmar Myanmar’s current situation is of historic dimensions. As one of the countries most affected by climate change it is hit by heat peaks, droughts, floodings, and cyclones like powerful Mocha, in 2023 one of many storms according the season over the Indian Ocean. Furthermore, there is the “devastating […]
Read more...Norway’s Telenor wants money back from Myanmar
Currently, there is a follow-up of the Norwegian company’s exit from the country in 2021. Arguing that the sales process was done too hasty, Telenor uses the World Bank’s mechanism of “International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes” (ICSID) to possibly get financial compensation. Telenor whose majority owner is the Norwegian government, is a Telecommunication […]
Read more...„A meaningful way of helping“
The Bettina-Kattermann-Stiftung (BKS) provides postgraduate scholarships for students from Myanmar. The foundation is ready to receive new applicants. How is the situation after the coup d état? ___________ Dr. Vera Kattermann, a Berlin-based psychotherapist and the BKS’s founder, talks with about her late sister’s legacy and the foundation’s perspectives. Question (Q): Would you mind to […]
Read more...Welcome to Vladivostok!
The tourism sector in Myanmar thoroughly shattered, new customers are awaited from inside the country as well as from Russia and China by Myanmar’s military council. Travel season is starting in Southeast Asia. People from all over the world will come to visit its people, beaches, landscapes, and cultural landmarks. Myanmar always had to compete […]
Read more...Research about Myanmar: ‘The adaption process is still running’.
A conference on Myanmar, taking placing at the University of Zurich last June, was performed under strict rules of conduct, reflecting the country’s crisis also in the area of science. Diverting positions within the international community how to meet Myanmar’s situation became visible. Hot summer days in Zurich, cold comfortable rooms inside the university’s old […]
Read more...“In the Path of the Storm”
As cyclone Mocha hit Bangladesh as well as Myanmar’s Rakhine and Chin State, Magwe and Sagaing Region on May 14th, the main bulk of humanitarian assistance is yet to arrive. Mocha as well as cyclone Nargis back in 2008 got the storm-category 4, which means catastrophic. Der Zyklon Mocha traf am 14.5.2023 auf die Küste […]
Read more...Essen wie in Myanmar
Das Frachtgeschäft in Myanmar boomt. Grund sind die Essgewohnheiten der Exil-Burmes:innen Homesick refugees and migrants living in exile all over the world are yearning for Burmese food, triggering an economic boom for freight companies which organize deliveries from Myanmar. Eating habits used to be a typical cultural marker in the research of migration. Menschen, die […]
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