arboreal creatures, biodiversity, endangered species, forest regeneration, gibbons, myanmar, resilience, wildlife conservation
The resilient “Skywalker” gibbon lives deep in the canopy of Myanmar’s rich jungles. This amazing primate, first spotted along the border between China and Myanmar in 2017, has fascinated scientists with its ability to thrive in extreme adversity. Once rare in Yunnan Province of China, new findings reveal a flourishing gibbon population within Myanmar. This ...
Jade, also known as the Emperor’s Stone, has been a symbol of status, power, and spirituality ever since the Stone Age. In ancient China, the use of jade was widespread. Jade has been used to make everything imaginable, from tools and weapons to furniture, decorations, and jewelry worn by royals. But it was only around ...
Cardinal Charles Bo, the Archbishop of Yangon, Myanmar, believes that the Chinese regime is responsible for the rapid spread of the COVID-19 pandemic. In fact, he wants the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to apologize to the world for its mismanagement of the situation. Standing against the CCP Bo points to an epidemiological model generated by the University ...
China is heavily involved in the peace process between the Myanmar government and rebel groups fighting in the northern regions of the country. But even though Beijing presents itself as a peace broker, its ambitions in the region are driven purely by personal vested interests. The Myanmar conflict Recently, a series of attacks by the ...
Four villagers from the Mandalay region in Myanmar have been sentenced to 14 months in prison with hard labor. Their crime — holding a protest in July 2018 against a Chinese company that was taking over their land in order to establish a cement plant. Jailed for protesting The villagers have been convicted under Myanmar’s ...
A report published by a London-based rights activist group, the Korea Future Initiative, has revealed that thousands of North Korean women are being forced into sexual slavery in China. Some are made to marry Chinese men. The trade brings in US$100 million per year for criminals involved in the activity. Trafficked into China for sexual ...
With the matter of the Rohingya Muslim persecution still to be resolved, Myanmar is seeing yet more large-scale religious violence in its land. And this time, it is the Christian communities of Myanmar that are under attack from an ethnic army that calls itself the United Wa State Army (UWSA). Myanmar’s Christian persecution The UWSA ...