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What about surveillance in the digital culture revolution?

Thomas Hylland Eriksen: The planet of apps – how the smartphone changed the world

Big tech: The planet of apps is probably one of the richest things you can now read about how we humans "sew together" with communication technology. But what about surveillance?
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internationally

Burmese killed for his idealism (interview)

: New Time met the lawyer who probably became too dangerous for Myanmar's old military: Recently he was killed for fighting side by side with Aung San Suu Kyi for the new democracy.
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internationally

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. 
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internationally

Asia's most vulnerable boat refugees

: The stateless Rohingya live in inhumane conditions in the border areas, on refugee boats and as prisoners in slave camps. The authorities pretend they do not exist. 
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internationally

Military division of power in Myanmar

: Despite Aung San Suu Kyi's landslide victory in the parliamentary elections in November, she is forced to share power with the military – and that could be her big challenge.
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internationally

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.
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documentary

The freeing power of the scrap heap

: Cultural resistance is to patch together what one finds on the heap. Burmese Days carefully shows 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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Democracy extremism

: While the people of Myanmar have gained greater freedom and are due to vote in parliamentary elections on November 8, Buddhist extremism, aggression and discrimination against Muslims are being institutionalized.
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A strange month for Burma

: March is again marked by violence against protesters in Burma. Norway's voice is perceived as strangely quiet this spring.
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