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Myanmar, a Vento Aureo without the main protagonist

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Vento Aureo is the Part 5 of Hirohiko Araki's famous masterpiece JoJo's Bizarre Adventure , a manga that centres around the main characters belonging to the Joestar family fighting against supernatural enemies in real life (with Part 7 and 8 representing alternative timeline), with a significant star mark on their bodies as a sign. Initially intended to end the series after Part 3, Araki has to reset his works after the manga reached a level of popularity unmatched to his initial low expectation. As for 2021, he has already announced he will begin Part 9, temporarily titled JOJOLANDS , but which scenario is for us to guess. JoJo's Bizarre Adventure's popularity is also worth noting because it is the best-selling manga in the history by average sales, with over 0.76 million each volumes. As for Vento Aureo, or Golden Wind in Italian, the story takes place in Italy by the year of 2001, twenty years before the Myanmar uprising. The story is about the prodigal son of alre...

Taliban and Tatmadaw - two groups, two nations, one idea, one reign of terror

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Tatmadaw is the name of the official Armed Forces of Myanmar or Burma. Taliban is an insurgent group in Afghanistan. Both two of them appear very different from the moments they surfaced, with two groups ruling two nations far apart from each other, having two different religious ideologies, except both are Asians. Yet, their idea of how to govern their nations are characterised by fascinating similarities: terror, thirst for power, and brainwashing, year by year. To understand the Tatmadaw and the Taliban, one can't go without digging the root of the past the created these forces, renowned for being brutal and violent from every corner it can do with. Only by seeing the inner self have we really discovered why Tatmadaw and Taliban are so ruthlessly murderous, for both the innocents of Myanmar and Afghanistan. History We'll talk a bit. Tatmadaw was originally the " Burma Independence Army ", founded by the father of current detained Nobel Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, A...

What are waiting Southeast Asian countries in their upcoming 2022 FIFA World Cup/2023 AFC Asian Cup quest?

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The drawn has made many ASEAN sides facing their own tasks with a lot of difficulties. However, this is typical since ASEAN zone is mostly regarded as a blackwater for many football pundits, due to its low international recognition in the footballing stage. Excluding Australia, the abnormal member of AFF that has the football capability beyond the reach, I take my personal discussion with the remaining national teams of Southeast Asia in their final pushes to get further attention. The Philippines can make surprises Group A: the Philippines have never been known as a football nation, and we can thank the Americans for that: colonisation, the introduction of English and America-based sports like basketball and boxing meant the country has languished outside the world's football map. From 2010s, the Philippines however started its football revival, which culminated in the country's greatest success up to date: 2019 AFC Asian Cup, which was the first time the Philippines qualified...

Why Viettel will not pay attention to the rising boycott against its brand in Myanmar

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Speaking about Viettel, one of the major telecommunication brand Vietnamese tend to feel associated and proud of recent years, the Vietnamese regime can also feel relieved about the successes of Viettel since it's operated by the Ministry of Defence, through privatisation talk has been ongoing. The Communist Party of Vietnam has been whitewashing its image to brand itself as a major partner. But this is changing. The coup d'état in February 1st by the Tatmadaw, or Burmese Armed Forces, put Viettel in jeopardy. Yet despite the deteriorating situation in Myanmar and the fear of losing revenues, the Vietnamese regime has not just silently sided with the Myanmar Generals but also appeared confidently believing, in secret, that, Myanmar would restore to stability so the Vietnamese government's investors to come back and exploit the resources. So, why won't Viettel pay attention to it? Viettel's quiet rise The company was founded in 1989 as a construction company as Vietn...

A Sino-Russian axis is emerging. But it needs allies to foment its ambitions

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  The alliance between Russia and China has emerged radically since the end of the Cold War. China, now a wealthier, more powerful and economically more prosperous, allying with slowly diversifying and less reliant on Western investors Russia, partly contributed by the increasing antipathy against the West in both nations. The two big nations are cooperating on many fronts, and China is the only country to not give a damn about sanctions the West imposed on Russia and recently, China, over human rights abuse, military aggression and its political infiltration. Yet Russia and China alone can't make them possible to overcome tough opponents. The United States has already built a vast network of allies in Europe and is also making one in Asia in a rapid process. Thus, any potential confrontation right now could bring huge risks to both Beijing and Moscow, so trying to provoke and challenge the response of America and its partners in the current play tool is being used by both governme...

Chinese regime's reaction in Myanmar's protest is not a surprise. It's a reflection of a greater paranoia of the dictatorship

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In the mid of March 2021, more than thirty Chinese factories were set ablaze by unknown assailants. Shortly aftermath, the Chinese government and its embassy in Myanmar condemned the arson attacks, accusing the perpetrators of being "instigated by the West". The condemnation possibly drew into the protesters, who are actively fighting against the junta since the 1 February coup. In the end, it was mocked by many Burmese online users for its hypocrisy. Yet, the reaction of China is nothing surprising. In fact, it is revealing the true paranoia of a totalitarian regime. China, now the world's most powerful dictatorship, is facing an unwanted challenge in Myanmar. Despite its attempts to whitewash history, the protest in Myanmar makes me questioning back what is China behaving, for certain. This is definitely not the only moment we see China's grotesque propaganda methods, it also helps us to see the maniac level of the Chinese regime: a regime that is paranoid of everyt...