By Pyae Sone Aung, Author at Frontier Myanmar

By Pyae Sone Aung

Pyae Sone Aung joined Frontier in July 2020 as a journalist after working for a year as a freelance researcher. Prior to that he spent four years at the Yangon School of Political Science, an education and research institute established in 2011

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Features

Who gets to vote?

For Muslim communities in rural Mandalay Region, the right to vote is at the mercy of exclusionary laws and a bureaucracy steeped in discrimination.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

Features

‘Voting won’t change anything’, say Myanmar’s no-voters

A fringe debate on Facebook about the merits of not voting in the November election has sparked threats of criminal charges and the anger of the civilian political elite.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 10

September 22, 2020

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magazine, 2020 Election, Features

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

Buddhist nationalism and a focus on rural voters helped the military-backed Union Solidarity and Development Party retain a rare stronghold in southern Mandalay Region, but.

News Feed, 2020 Election, News Feed, News, Features

Coordinated behaviour: Inside the USDP’s well-paid army of social media monitors

The Tatmadaw-backed opposition party has hired a team of young, tech-savvy researchers to monitor what is said about the party online.

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