The revolutionary songs of Naing Myanmar, who died in February, have supplied a soundtrack for pro-democracy protests since the 1988 uprising, and activists say his music will remain an inspiration until Myanmar achieves freedom from military rule.
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The revolutionary songs of Naing Myanmar, who died in February, have supplied a soundtrack for pro-democracy protests since the 1988 uprising, and activists say his music will remain an inspiration until Myanmar achieves freedom from military rule.
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The auctioning of the imprisoned leader’s Yangon house at the behest of her estranged brother is a legal farce, lawyers say, while pro-democracy veterans insist it must be preserved for public memory.
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While thousands of civilians flee Myanmar’s war, grandmother Ama and others stay behind, forming the invisible backbone of the anti-junta struggle.
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Residents of coastal villages in Tanintharyi Region say their livelihoods have been hurt by work on an LNG-fired power project involving European companies Total and Siemens.
BY Ye Htut Win
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်အတွက် စမ်းသပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေသလို အစိုးရကို လူထုနှင့် ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သွားစေလိမ့်မည်ဖြစ်သော်လည်း တချို့ကတော့ အလျင်စလို နိုင်လွန်းမည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်။
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In the fields near Minhla in Magway Region, informal oil entrepreneurs scramble from site to site in the hope of striking lucky.
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For millions of smallholder farmers in Myanmar, a deadline has passed.
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Reducing the Tatmadaw’s huge economic stakes, particularly in natural resource extraction, is integral to ending conflict and repression in Myanmar.
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