People walk past an election campaign billboard for the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party ahead of the junta’s election in northern Shan State’s Nawnghkio town on December 9. (AFP)

On the campaign trail in a tug-of-war Myanmar town

The election billboards are shining new in the northern Shan State town of Nawnghkio, but the homes are still shattered by combat.

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