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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.

By Myint Myat Thu

Stuck in a rut on the road to democracy

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Yangon University’s campus cash cows

Yangon University has some nice little earners, including a lucrative tender for a monopoly of all graduation photos, but evidence of the income is hard to find.

Facebook bans Min Aung Hlaing, army top brass after UN genocide allegations

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Army chiefs must be prosecuted for 'genocide', says UN Fact-Finding Mission

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Verdict in Reuters case postponed due to judge’s ‘poor health’

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တရားသူကြီး နေမကောင်းဟုဆိုကာ ရိုက်တာအမှု အမိန့်ချရန် ရက်ရွှေ့ဆိုင်း

လျှို့ဝှက်အဆင့် စာရွက်စာတမ်းတွေကို လက်ဝယ်တွေ့ရှိတယ်လို့ စွပ်စွဲ ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ကိုကျော်စိုးဦးတို့ကို မြောက်ပိုင်းခရိုင်တရားရုံးက ယနေ့၊ သြဂုတ်၂၇ ရက်နေ့မှာ အမိန့်ချဖို့ သတ်မှတ်ထားပေမယ့် တရားသူကြီးဖြစ်သူ ဦးရဲလွင်နေမကောင်းတာကြောင့် စက်တင်ဘာ ၃ ရက်ကို ရွှေ့ဆိုင်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

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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.

Editorial, Opinion

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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