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The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

Features

The people’s grief and their right to closure

By Oliver Slow

Opinion

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

By Ben Dunant

Culture

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

ဟိုတယ်များအတွက် ခက်ခဲတဲ့ ၁၄ ရက်

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By Frontier

News Feed, News

Rohingya camps in Bangladesh put under ‘complete lockdown’

Bangladesh has imposed a "complete lockdown" in Cox's Bazar district, home to over a million Rohingya refugees, to halt the spread of coronavirus, officials said Thursday.

By AFP

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business, Features

‘Doomsday’ for informal workers as COVID-19 rocks the economy

Economic turmoil and government measures to curb the coronavirus have dealt a cruel blow to workers in the informal sector, where layoffs go unrecorded and people out of work lack access to social security.

By Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business

Power cuts unlikely despite power project delays, says YESC

Lower than expected power demand due to cooler weather and the impact of COVID-19 means lengthy power cuts are unlikely this hot season despite delays to three emergency power projects.

By Kyaw Ye Lynn

Travel, Features, Culture

Wild waters: Ye, Mon State

The latest instalment in our series about wild swimming spots focuses on little-visited Ye in southern Mon State, where we discover shipwrecks, deserted beaches and technicolour sunsets.

By Dominic Horner

News Feed

Isolation blues? Myanmar's ex-political prisoners share survival tips

Support independent journalism in Myanmar.

By AFP

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business, Features

ကိုဗစ်ဒဏ်ကိုကျားကန်ရန် လူမှုစီးပွားဘဝအစီအမံများ ပိုမိုလိုအပ်နေ

ကိုရိုနာဗိုင်းရပ်ကြောင့် ဖြစ်ပေါ်လာသည့် ဒဏ်ကိုခုသာခံသာရှိအောင် အတိုးနှုန်းလျှော့ချမှုများနှင့် အခြားစီးပွားရေးလှုံ့ဆော်မှုဆိုင်ရာ ဆောင်ရွက်ချက်များကို စီးပွားရေးအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက ကြိုဆိုလိုက်သည်။ သို့ရာတွင် စီးပွားရေးလုပ်ငန်းများ ပိတ်ရခြင်းနှင့် ကြီးမားသည့်အလုပ်အကိုင်ဆုံးရှုံးမှုများကို ရှောင်လွဲနိုင်ရန် ထပ်မံဆောင်ရွက်ရမည့် လိုအပ်ချက်များရှိနေသည်ကိုမူ အများက သဘောတူကြသည်။

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Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

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Features

Out of the wild: Myanmar’s controversial plan to harvest endangered species

Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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By Oliver Slow

By Oliver Slow

By Ben Dunant

By Myint Myat Thu

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By Eaint Thet Su

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