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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

Seven years after Buddhist mobs burned down mosques and slaughtered dozens of children at an Islamic school, hundreds of Muslims remain displaced and they say the NLD government has done little to help heal or rebuild since.

BY Swe Lei Mon

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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

BY Swe Lei Mon

News Feed, 2020 Election, Breaking News, News

Hard talk or hate speech? Outlet spreads disinformation and bigotry under guise of political commentary

The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.

BY Andrew Nachemson, Phone Htet Naung & Banyar Kyaw

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Facebook bans Northern Alliance armed groups, calls them “dangerous organizations”

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BY Clare Hammond

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Shwe Mann forms party ahead of 2020 election

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BY Clare Hammond

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ရန်ကုန်မြို့ တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲလသာမြို့နယ်၌ စတင်

ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ လသာမြို့နယ်မှာ တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲကို ယနေ့ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၅ ရက်နေ့ နံနက်ပိုင်းက စတင်ကျင်းပရာ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးဖြိုးမင်းသိန်း တက်ရောက် ဖွင့်လှစ်ပေးခဲ့ပါတယ်။

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Jolie demands Myanmar ‘commitment’ to end anti-Rohingya violence

Angelina Jolie said that Myanmar must "show genuine commitment" to end violence that has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh.

BY AFP

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Civics education in primary schools is a lesson in discrimination

An open letter to President U Win Myint has focused attention on discriminatory material in the government’s civics education curriculum for primary schools.

BY Su Myat Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

The wait’s nearly over for foreign insurers

After years of waiting, foreign insurers have been given the go-ahead to enter the domestic market, to the chagrin of their Myanmar competitors.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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Myanmar's opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop

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BY AFP

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Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

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BY AFP

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Myanmar’s opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop

Fields of purple opium poppy stretch across the pastures and peaks of eastern Myanmar, with many farmers reluctant to give up the profitable cash crop.

BY AFP

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

News Feed, Backpage, Opinion

Fever dream: inside a Yangon fever clinic at the epicentre of the pandemic

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

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Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

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Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

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Podcast: COVID Confusion

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Volume 6, Issue 12

October 22, 2020

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

Kyaw Myint is just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg of criminal activity in Myanmar’s business community, but as long as you steer clear of politics you’re unlikely to get caught.

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Myths, militias and the destruction of Loi Sam Sip

Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.

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