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What is at stake? Will the elections be free? Who is competing and how does the electoral process work? Our FAQ on the most democratic elections since 1960 in Myanmar.

As the so-called advanced economies fail to fulfill their commitments to stop climate change, people in Vietnam, Myanmar or on the island states of the Pacific have to pay with their lives. Big Oil, Big Gas, and Big Coal need to accept responsibility and start making real contributions.

Myanmar's democratic reforms hold a great promise: the resolution of the world’s longest ongoing civil war. But the peace is hampered by an economic logic of limited utility.

Natural resources should be a major contributor to development in some of the countries that need it most. And yet, in some of world’s poorest and most fragile states, they bring just the opposite.

The Committee Topical Resolution on Burma of the European Green Party and remarks by Sabine Meyer.

A collection of essays on civil society in Vietnam and Myanmar/Burma focusing on the perspectives for pro-democracy and pro-change politics.

The regional director of Heinrich Böll Foundation South East Asia comments on the EU's Myanmar (Burma) Country Strategy Paper 2007-2013. She proposes to engage with sub-national state actors and to partner with the civil society.