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English language news service from Myanmar's largest independent media network: The Democratic Voice of Burma. Newscast goes behind the headlines on What's happening in Myanmar. Newsroom shines a spotlight on under-reported stories through interviews with decision makers. Watch DVB English News on YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts. https://www.youtube.com/@dvbenglish/podcasts
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Vicky Bowman, a British former ambassador and the director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business, speaks to the DVB Newsroom about the business climate in Myanmar since the 2021 military coup and her imprisonment in Yangon in 2022. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Former U.S. Ambassador to Myanmar Scot Marciel joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss his four years as America's top diplomat in Yangon and how the relationship between the two countries has changed since the 2021 military coup. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Myanmar journalist, producer, and presenter at Voice of America (VOA), Ei Thant Sin, sits down with the DVB Newsroom from Washington, D.C. to discuss her work covering her homeland from the U.S. and her new job as a host of the Insight Myanmar Podcast.Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Aung San Suu Kyi's son Kim Aris speaks to DVB Newsroom host Mon Mon Myat about his mother's deteriorating health conditions in prison, where she's been held incommunicado since the Myanmar military coup on Feb. 1, 2021. Read Kim Aris' statement regarding Aung San Suu Kyi's heart condition on DVB English News.Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Yasmin Ullah, the co-founder of the Rohingya Maiyafuinor Collaborative Network, joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss her work empowering Rohingya women, and advocating on their behalf, from the refugee camps they've ended up in since fleeing genocide in Myanmar.Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Myanmar artist and activist Chuu Wai Nyein joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss her work. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Alan Clements has spent over 40 years advocating for non-violent resistance to military dictatorship in Myanmar. He speaks to Mon Mon Myat about his latest book "Conversation with a dictator: A challenge to the authoritarian assault" based on a fictional conversation he had with Myanmar Senior General, and 2021 military coup leader, Min Aung Hlaing. Listen to DVB English News on YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Tom Andrews has served as the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Myanmar since 2020, working to document and expose human rights violations. Since the 2021 military coup, Andrews has called for more targeted sanctions against the regime in Naypyidaw and monitors its attempts to evade these sanctions. Watch the Newsroom interview with Tom Andrews on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Benedict Rogers, a British human rights activist and journalist, was recently-appointed as the new senior director at Fortify Rights. He joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss his new role and how international justice and accountability can be pursued in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Trish is a Michelin-trained chef and the founder of Bamama Cooks, a food initiative which creates community for Myanmar exiles and the diaspora in Thailand. Check out our previous report for DW called The Burmese Chef Using Food to Create Community.Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
James Rodehaver is the chief of Myanmar team at the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR). He sits down with the DVB Newsroom to discuss how the U.N. documents human rights violations and crimes committed by the military in Myanmar. Watch Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Aung Naing Soe, a journalist and documentary filmmaker from Myanmar, joins the DVB Newsroom to discuss the new book he co-authored with Joe Freeman called Frontline Poets: The literary rebels taking on Myanmar's military.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Debbie Stothard is a human rights activist from Malaysia and the founder-coordinator of ALTSEAN-Burma, a network of groups based in the regional bloc Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) supporting democracy and human rights in Myanmar for the last 30 years.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Nyein Chan May is an intersectional feminist, a pro-democracy activist, a podcaster, and the co-founder of German Solidarity with Myanmar, based in Germany. She joins DVB Newsroom to discuss her work in Europe building solidarity for Myanmar's democracy movement since the 2021 military coup.Read Nyein Chan May's DVB English News op-ed: A naïve dream or daring attempt? A Myanmar feminist podcast.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Myanmar human rights activist and civil society leader Khin Ohmar sits down with DVB English News to discuss how and why the Myanmar military is blocking, obstructing, and "weaponizing" earthquake relief from reaching those in need. Our request for an interview with a representative from the U.N. in Myanmar working on the earthquake response went unanswered.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
The International Day for Mine Awareness and Assistance in Mine Action is April 4. To discuss how Myanmar became the world's deadliest country for landmines, Yeshua Moser- Puangsuwan, the author of the Landmine Monitor report on Myanmar, joined us in the DVB Newsroom.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube, Spotify, or Patreon. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Maung Zarni, a genocide scholar from Myanmar and the co-founder of Free Rohingya Coalition, joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss human rights, social justice, and genocide in Myanmar, Syria, and Israel/Palestine. Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music, or wherever you get podcasts.
Martin Smith, an independent author, researcher and historian on Myanmar joins us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss his latest work "The Conflict Trap," a new podcast series produced by the Transnational Institute (TNI). Smith is the author of the quintessential book on Myanmar "Burma: Insurgency and the Politics of Ethnicity."Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
Ma Nandar is a theatre director, writer, poet, translator, host of the G-Taw Zagar Wyne podcast, and founder of the Purple Feminists Group. She joined us in the DVB Newsroom to discuss how the patriarchy in Myanmar sustains military dictatorship and how women have led the pro-democracy struggle against it, and and the 2021 coup. Read: The Failing Feminist: A speech and poem by Ma Nandar.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
Chris Gunness, the founder and director of the Myanmar Accountability Project (MAP), joined DVB English News in the newsroom to discuss international justice for the Myanmar people and how MAP is using the legal principle of universal jurisdiction to pursue accountability for the crimes committed by the Myanmar military in courts around the world This interview was recorded before a court in Argentina issued 25 arrest warrants for Myanmar's military and civilian leaders, including jailed State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi and former President Htin Kyaw, on feb. 14 for their alleged involvement in genocide against the Rohingya. Read more here.Watch DVB Newsroom on DVB English News YouTube or Spotify. Listen on Apple Podcasts, YouTube Music, Audible, Amazon Music or wherever you get podcasts.
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