Students from four universities in Rangoon gather for “Shakespeare Lives”, an event to celebrate the enduring legacy of Britain’s greatest playwright 400 years after his death.
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Zeyar Lwin and Paing Phyo Min were snatched by plain-clothes police at 4pm on Inya Road as they returned from the rally in a friend’s car.
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Students at Rangoon University to ask Burmese government to rebuild Student’s Union destroyed by the military in 1962 protests.
Prominent pro-democracy activist and 88 Generation Peace and Open Society member Hla Myo Naung passed away on 28 November in Rangoon.
Obama urges new generation to take the lead in business, education and climate change but speak out against religious intolerance.
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To mark the 52nd anniversary of the 7 July Students’ Massacre, the All Burma Federation of Students Unions organised a march of around 100 people through Rangoon University campus.
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Rangoon University reopened for a new term on Thursday, but this time with undergraduates attending classes in antiquated classrooms for the first time since 1996.
Twenty-five years after the ’88 uprising, the university where the democracy movement once took its root is about to open again
On 7 July 1962 students at Rangoon University staged a peaceful demonstration to protest the institution’s lackluster education standards and unfair university regulations imposed by president Ne Win. The protest[…]
Without the implementation of radical reforms, Burma’s schools will continue to stagnate
The US has always claimed to be concerned about the Burmese people’s welfare, but the rapprochement between the country and Burma seems to be more fueled by the US government’s strategic geopolitical concerns
