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.
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.
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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ယခုလကုန်တွင် တာဝန်ပြီးဆုံး၍ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှ ပြန်လည်ထွက်ခွာတော့မည့် ဗြိတိသျှသံအမတ်ကြီး မစ္စတာ အန်ဒရူး ပက်ထရစ်အား Frontier မှ ဒို့အသံအဖွဲ့သားတွေက တွေ့ဆုံမေးမြန်းခဲ့ပါတယ်။ ဒို့အသံက ဝင်းဇာနည်အောင်နဲ့ ထက်ထက်နိုင်တို့နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံစဉ်မှာ သံအမတ်ကြီးက သူမျက်မြင်ကြုံတွေခဲ့ရတဲ့ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံက အပြောင်းအလဲတွေ၊ မြန်မာပြည်ရဲ့ လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအခြေအနေနဲ့ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဒုက္ခသည်အရေးကိစ္စတွေကို ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ တာဝန်ထမ်းဆောင်ဖို့.
An American man has been arrested for allegedly running an online brothel service matching men in northern Thailand with Myanmar sex workers across the border.
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The Central Bank is steering the bank lending model away from overdraft loans with immovable assets as collateral in order to make financing more widely available.
A new report has said that Schedule Two of the 2008 constitution is where the “big debates” about Myanmar’s future converge, and that the section is key to opening discussions about amending the controversial charter.
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Coffee is catching on as a cash crop in the Shan hills, helped by programmes aimed at raising quality and finding international buyers.
A village administrator has been sacked for refusing to take legal action against villagers in an increasingly nasty dispute involving a Kayin State quarry, an Asian Development Bank-funded road project and a Border Guard Force.
BY Su Myat Mon
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