Myanmar
Support for Myanmar's Suu Kyi strong after 100 days in power
Analysis - Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi is 100 days into her first term but her report card is mixed, writes Graeme Acton.
How Kiwi doco makers use film to drive change
Borderless Productions' documentary On the Backs of Women offers a window into the lives of three entrepreneurial women battling poverty in Myanmar. The film has recently won best documentary at the… Video, Audio, Gallery
Young Entrepreneurs
Last week more than 130,000 people went through the gates at the National Agricultural Fieldays near Hamilton. Ten of those were top, young South East Asian agri-business leaders and entrepreneurs… Audio, Gallery
Young Entrepreneurs
Last week more than 130,000 people went through the gates at the National Agricultural Fieldays near Hamilton. Ten of those were top, young South East Asian agri-business leaders and entrepreneurs…
AudioThingyan! Burmese celebrate their New Year
It’s Thingyan time. Auckland's Burmese community are celebrating their New Year Festival, showcasing the seven ethnic nationalities with cultural and traditional performances, food stalls and more. Audio, Gallery
Thingyan! Burmese celebrate their New Year
It’s Thingyan time. Auckland's Burmese community are celebrating their New Year Festival, showcasing the seven ethnic nationalities with cultural and traditional performances, food stalls and more.
AudioAung San Suu Kyi releases Myanmar political prisoners
Dozens of student activists have been freed from prison in Myanmar, a day after Aung San Suu Kyi pledged to work to free all political prisoners.
'The boats were the only escape'
Their lives are a struggle and they are targeted by human traffickers. Insight asks if the lot of Myanmar's Royhingya will improve under Aung San Suu Kyi's NLD. Audio
Out from under the censors in Myanmar
What is it like publishing newspapers when military censors call the shots? The editor of The Myanmar Times tells RNZ's Graeme Acton what a difference democracy makes. Audio
Out from under the censors in Myanmar
What is it like publishing newspapers when military censors call the shots? The editor of The Myanmar Times tells RNZ's Graeme Acton what a difference democracy makes.
AudioMediawatch for 3 April 2016
Lifting the lid a little on PR's pull on journalists; out from under censorship in Myanmar; Switzerland of the South?; mixed messages on Boris. Audio
Rohingya: Exile in the Rakhine
Graeme Acton asks if the lives of Myanmar's Rohingya people will improve now Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy is in power. Video, Audio, Gallery
Suu Kyi to get new PM-like role
Myanmar's new government is to create a role similar to prime minister for pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a draft bill suggests.
Myanmar's first elected civilian president sworn in
Myanmar's new president Htin Kyaw has been sworn in as its first elected civilian leader in more than 50 years.
Amnesty International calls for release of political prisoners
Amnesty International's Laura Haigh joins Checkpoint from Yangon to explain why the organisation is calling on the new government to release its political prisoners. Audio
Plight of the Rohingya
an update on the struggles and migration crisis of the Rohingya people from the Rakhine state of Myanmar - with Matthew Smith executive director of Fortify Rights, who is currently attending a Human… Audio
Myanmar - A Democracy Under Construction
Insight travels to Myanmar to find out how democracy is unfolding after decades of harsh military rule. Audio, Gallery
Asia correspondent, Charlotte Glennie
Myanmar has began it's presidential selection process but the woman who has been the face of the pro Democracy movement in that country - Aung San Suu Kyi, is not among them. Audio
Liz Sime: women and children first
Recent retiree from the position of Director of International Operations, and Vice President at Marie Stopes International, after working for 15 years around the world for international humanitarian… Audio
NZer celebrates arts milestone in Yangon
When Gill Pattison latched on to the idea of opening an art gallery in Myanmar, the country was under a military government not exactly focussed on the needs of artists.
