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Open and critical about the work of the CIA

UNDERCOVER: CIA agent Amaryllis Fox developed algorithms that predict terrorism, and tells about the CIA's working methods in its startling and exciting biography.
Henning Næs -

Genocide in seductive colors

GENOCIDE: Exceptional photo book provides a shocking insight into the genocide of the Rohingya.
Ellen Lande -

"The Lady" and the game about the Earth

Will Aung San Suu Kyi and the new government manage to involve the people when fulfilling the promise of a fair distribution of natural resources? It is...
ingeborg.moa@gmail.com -

Editor with life as effort

How free is the press in the former military dictatorship? Ny Tid spoke with Myanmar's perhaps most independent newspaper editor who is also critical of Norwegian support. 
Truls Lie -

Asia's most vulnerable boat refugees

The stateless Rohingya live under inhumane conditions in the border areas, on refugee boats and as prisoners in slave camps. The authorities pretend that they do not exist. 
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Military division of power in Myanmar

Despite Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide victory in the November parliamentary elections, she is forced to share power with the military – and that could be her biggest challenge.
susannekempel@gmail.com -

The freeing power of the scrap heap

Cultural resistance is to piece together what one finds on the heap. Burmese Days shows in a careful way how Myanmar cultural actors see the potential of the fragmented – and that a ruined society does not have to be hopeless.
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Myanmar's long road to peace

Myanmar's historic parliamentary elections do not necessarily lead to peace in the country, after more than half a century of conflict with the country's many minority groups.
susannekempel@gmail.com -

A strange month for Burma

Again in March, violence against protesters in Burma is marked. Norway's voice is experienced as strangely quiet this spring.
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Rich full-format MODERN TIMES including the supplement Orientering and Modern Times Review comes out quarterly in early March, June, September and December) with international book reviews (non-fiction) and comments / essays. According to the physical newspaper (and PDF), the articles are published regularly online (see the newsletters).

© MODERN TIMES & Orientering AS. PO Box 3113 Elisenberg, 0207 Oslo. Chief editor: Truls Lie

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