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‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

Since health authorities introduced stay-at-home orders for Yangon in September, informal workers and small business owners have faced a grim struggle to make ends meet amid a lack of government assistance.

BY Htin Lynn Aung

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‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

BY Htin Lynn Aung

News Feed, 2020 Election, Breaking News, News

Hard talk or hate speech? Outlet spreads disinformation and bigotry under guise of political commentary

The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.

BY Andrew Nachemson, Phone Htet Naung & Banyar Kyaw

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As Maungdaw burns, official narrative goes up in smoke

Frontier joined the government’s latest media trip to Maungdaw, and developments there placed further scrutiny on the government’s official version of events.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

News Feed, News

UN Security Council to hold meeting on Rakhine crisis

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BY AFP

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Dalai Lama calls on Aung San Suu Kyi for peaceful end to Rakhine crisis

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BY AFP

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မယုံနိုင်လောက်အောင် ကောင်းလွန်းသည့် SCL Myanmar ၏ ရိုက်စားခွင်

ရင်းနှီးမြှုပ်နှံထားသော ငွေများအတွက် အကျိုးအမြတ် အများအပြားရမည်ဟူကာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ကျေးလက်ဒေသတွင် ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် လိမ်လည်မှုအစီအစဉ်(Ponzi Scheme)တစ်ခုတွင် လူထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာမှာ ၎င်းတို့ပိုင် ငွေသန်းပေါင်းများစွာ ဆုံးရှုံးခဲ့ရသည်။

BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

UN warns Rakhine crisis 'textbook example of ethnic cleansing'

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BY AFP

News Feed, News

4 arrested in Taungdwingyi after attack on Muslim homes, businesses

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BY Htun Khaing

News Feed, News

UN warns Rakhine crisis ‘textbook example of ethnic cleansing’

The UN human rights chief statement comes as the latest estimates put at 313,000 the number of people who have fled to Bangladesh in the last two weeks.

BY AFP

Bizfeed, Business

Rakhine govt to sign Maungdaw economic zone MOU with mysterious consortium

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Affairs, Features

‘That guy should be killed’: Escaping a mob in Maungdaw

Hostility greeted three journalists who made a clandestine trip to Maungdaw late last month after the security operation had began against those behind the August 25 attacks.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Myanmar feels the pain as COVID-19 hits key sectors hard

Doh Athan

Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

Doh Athan

Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

Doh Athan

Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID Confusion

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Volume 6, Issue 12

October 22, 2020

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

Kyaw Myint is just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg of criminal activity in Myanmar’s business community, but as long as you steer clear of politics you’re unlikely to get caught.

magazine, News Feed, News

Myths, militias and the destruction of Loi Sam Sip

Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.

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