Geoffrey Goddard

Sand-mining at Ngapali beach. The “mass theft” of sand is destroying the beach, says the Alliance against Sand-mining at Ngapali and Myanmar Beaches. Photo: Supplied
Beach lovers petition President to stop sand-mining at Ngapali
President U Thein Sein is being asked to order a halt to sand-mining at Ngapali beach in an online petition being circulated by...
A Chinese Coast Guard vessel (right) using water cannon against a Vietnamese fisheries surveillance ship in disputed waters of the South China Sea off Vietnam’s central coast, in a file photo taken on June 2, 2014. Reports of an encounter between the two countries in the South China Sea in June 2011 were censored by the Myanmar authorities in China’s favour. Photo: AFP/Vietnam News Agency
Wielding the red pen in China’s favour
Myanmar was founding member of the Non-Aligned Movement and has long embraced a neutral foreign policy, although ...
Nai Hong Sar addressing the media. Photo: Hein Htet.
‘The election has great implications for the negotiations’
Myanmar’s main coalition of armed ethnic groups, the United Nationalities Federal Council, has said it would be “impossible” for a ceasefire...
‘Thailand does not need to engage in the destruction of the Salween’
Thai conservationist and human rights activist Kraisak Choonhavan has long campaigned against hydroelectric dams. Dr Kraisak, an academic for 20...
‘The issue of ethnicity in Myanmar politics is now not being resolved but rather encouraged’
Veteran specialist of Myanmar politics Professor Robert H. Taylor
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi out campaigning. Photo: Mizzima
‘It is difficult to see how the talks can move things forward unless views are changed’
(ANALYSIS) In late November 2013, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi wrote to...
Geoffrey Goddard