It was perhaps inevitable that the disbursement of billions of kyat to help needy households weather the COVID-19 storm would lead to questions about administrative.
It was perhaps inevitable that the disbursement of billions of kyat to help needy households weather the COVID-19 storm would lead to questions about administrative.
Hopes are rising that elections can soon be held in the nine Rakhine State townships where voting was cancelled on November 8, but the National League for Democracy seems unconvinced.
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Though rooted in old beliefs about a primordial realm of serpents, snake temples, or mway paya, are a growing phenomenon in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's army chief has given a rare foreign media interview to insist there was no proof the military persecuted the Rohingya community.
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One of the nation’s biggest madrassas is thriving in a Sagaing Region town where it was built on land donated by a Buddhist.
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BY Su Myat Mon
တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ ဦးကိုနီနှင့် အငှားယာဉ်မောင်း ကိုနေဝင်းတို့ အသက်ခံရသည့်အမှုအား စစ်ဆေး စီရင်ခဲ့ရာတွင် အထူးခုံရုံးက ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်ဟု တရားရုံးတာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောကြားသည်
BY Su Myat Mon
It’s a difficult time to be a journalist in Myanmar and students at one of the country’s leading journalism institutes are aware of the challenges ahead as they seek to build careers in the media.
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More than two months after they were introduced, residents and officials in Yangon are increasingly ignoring stay-at-home orders, yet the government insists infection rates need to fall before they can be rolled back.
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