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‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.

‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.

KNU heavyweight prepares for election battle

Lifelong revolutionary Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung speaks to Frontier’s Naw Betty Han about his decision to resign as a senior Karen National Union leader in order to make a run for parliament.

Dubious legends

A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.

ဆွာချောင်းရေလှောင်တမံ ကျိုးပေါက် ရေကြီးမှုကြောင့် လေးဦး သေ၊ သုံးဦးပျောက်ဆုံး

ဆွာချောင်းရေလှောင်တမံ ကျိုးပေါက်ရာက ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့တဲ့ ရေကြီးရေလျှံမှုတွေကြောင့် လေးဦးသေဆုံးပြီး ဗိုလ်မှူးတစ်ဦးနဲ့ ကလေးငယ်တစ်ဦး အပါအဝင် သုံးဦးပျောက်ဆုံးနေတယ်လို့ တာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောပါတယ်။

Rakhine: Time for a new approach

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Bagan and the World Heritage list countdown

After years of challenges and controversy, a UNESCO committee will decide next year whether to grant World Heritage listing to Bagan – but hotel development in the archaeological zone remains a thorny and unresolved issue.

By Ye Mon

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Aid denial ‘weaponized’ in Kachin with Chinese backing, says rights group

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By Ben Dunant

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Flood-damaged bridge closed on Nay Pyi Taw Expressway

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By Frontier

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Government rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya 'genocide'

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ဆွာချောင်းတမံ ရေပိုလွှဲ ပဲ့ကျပြီး ရေလျံမှုဖြစ်၊ နေပြည်တော် အမြန်လမ်းပေါ်ရှိ ဆွာချောင်းတံတား နိမ့်ကျ

ဆွာချောင်းရေလှောင်တမံ၏ ရေပိုလွှဲ ယနေ့နံနက်ပိုင်းက ပဲ့ကျမှုကြောင့် ရေများလျှံထွက်ပြီး ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ရှိ ရန်ကုန်-မန္တလေးအမြန်လမ်း နှင့် ဆွာမြို့အပါအဝင် ကျေးရွာများတွင် ရေကြီးမှုများ ဖြစ်ပေါ်နေကြောင်း သက်ဆိုင်ရာက သတင်းထုတ်ပြန်သည်။

By Frontier

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Government rejects UN probe findings of Rohingya ‘genocide’

The Myanmar government rejected on Wednesday the findings of a UN probe alleging genocide by its military against the Rohingya.

By AFP

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Myanma Insurance to work with foreign firms on government housing

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By Kyaw Ye Lynn

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Volume 6, Issue 7

August 11, 2020

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Shan farmer’s killing leaves villagers burning with anger

After the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 people marched in protest.

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Democracy without the dividend

It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.

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