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2020 Election, News

Internal migrants risk mass disenfranchisement

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters could lose their right to cast a ballot in November thanks to a vote transfer system that shifts the burden from electoral authorities to voters.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

2020 Election, News

Internal migrants risk mass disenfranchisement

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters could lose their right to cast a ballot in November thanks to a vote transfer system that shifts the burden from electoral authorities to voters.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

2020 Election, News

Serving ‘the general’: Inside the Union Betterment Party

U Shwe Mann’s party has grown rapidly thanks to the wealth and influence of its leaders, but their military backgrounds cast doubt on its claim.

BY Swe Lei Mon

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Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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Amid COVID-19, a shackled broadcast media narrows the space for political competition

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The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

2020 Election, Features

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

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Fool’s gold: Thousands out of work as dispute shutters dozens of mines

A long-running dispute between the government and a mining company over a debt has shuttered dozens of gold mines, crippled small operators and left thousands out of work.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs

Govt losing hundreds of millions a year on SOE profit rules, report reveals

Rules introduced in 2012 have seen state-owned enterprises build up cash reserves of K11.45 trillion (US$8.6 billion) in accounts that earn no interest – money that governance experts say would be better spent on infrastructure or social services.

BY Thomas Kean

News, Affairs, Features

Nothing is impossible

Kan Htoo Aung has been disabled from birth but an indefatigable spirit has enabled him to overcome his handicap and devote his life to helping others.

BY Su Myat Mon

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အပစ်ရပ်စာချုပ်လက်မှတ်ထိုးရေး ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု FPNCC ပြောကြား

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး ပစ်ခတ်ခိုက်တိုက်မှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက် (NCA) အား လက်မှတ်မထိုးထားရသေးသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုကော်မတီ (FPNCC) အနေဖြင့် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရေးကိစ္စ ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ကေအိုင်အို) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဂွမ်မော်က ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Three lives in Hpakant

The jade industry at Hpakant in Kachin State is a multi-billion-dollar business in which risk flows downhill, from the company bosses to the mid-level traders and, at the bottom, the itinerant miners known as yemase who risk their lives each day in the hope of striking it rich.

BY Daniel Combs

News, Affairs, Features

Empowering through sexual health knowledge

At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

BY Marysol Balane

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Episode 37: An after class culture

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

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Ethnic groups challenge Tatmadaw chief’s Panglong opening speech

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BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News

Peace conference opens amid low expectations and calls for reform

Ethnic leaders and negotiators say that the government and military have blocked discussion of key political and economic issues at the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference that opened today in Nay Pyi Taw.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

‘We miss our families and we want to come home’: reporters held in hotel room for weeks

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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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Podcast: A minor’s tale

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Volume 6, Issue 11

October 7, 2020

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magazine, 2020 Election, Editorial, Opinion

Time to take away the election commission’s red pen

The Union Election Commission’s censoring of political party speeches underscores the need for Myanmar to unambiguously enshrine freedom of expression in law.

2020 Election, News

Serving ‘the general’: Inside the Union Betterment Party

U Shwe Mann’s party has grown rapidly thanks to the wealth and influence of its leaders, but their military backgrounds cast doubt on its claim.

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