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Frontier reporter Naw Betty Han remembers a friend and fellow exiled Myanmar journalist who died on October 5 in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

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The government needs to stand by its pledge to accept an NLD victory and should disregard a number of vexatious election complaints from losing candidates. 

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