updated 04.06.2025 English version below Bei allen Schwierigkeiten: Private Hilfe erreicht die Menschen, die sie am dringendsten benötigen. Diese Hilfe muss sich den schwierigen Umständen anpassen. Hilfe für die Erdbebenopfer kommt besonders auch aus der burmesischen Gesellschaft. Die selektiv zugelassene internationalen Hilfe – entweder ganzer Staaten oder erfahrener Organisationen wie Oxfam Myanmar – stockt auf […]
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Herausgefallen aus der Zivilisation
International wird mittlerweile nur spärlich über Myanmar berichtet, was die Spendenbereitschaft beeinflusst. Dabei leben in den Regionen Sagaing und Mandalay Menschen teilweise unbehaust und versuchen, ohne jede Hilfe ihr Leben zu bewältigen. Viele, durchaus auch spendenwillige, haben sich acht Wochen nach dem Erdbeben wieder von Myanmar abgewandt. Nicht unbedingt aus Gleichgültigkeit, sondern zum einen im […]
Read more...Turning the Eyes to Rome
updated May 9, 2025 German version below Currently, the Burmese Cardinal Charles Maung Bo is among other entitled cardinals taking part in the conclave, finding the next pope. The conclave began on Wednesday, May 7, in the hermetically closed Sistine Chapel in Rome. As widely known, all cardinals under the age of 80 have the […]
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 […]
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Started in April 2020, this blog is about Myanmar and Indo-Pacific affairs.
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 […]
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