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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

magazine, News Feed, News, Business

‘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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At rest in Yangon's cemeteries

Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.

BY Jared Downing

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Arrests as Yangon authorities tear down Hlegu slum

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တိုးတက်မှု တစုံတရာ မချပြနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအစိုးရ ရှင်းလင်းပွဲ

ရန်ကုန်မှာ အဓိက ခံစားနေရတဲ့ ပြဿနာတွေ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ရေကြီးရေလျှံတာ၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး မလုံလောက်တာ၊ ကားကြပ်တာ၊ ဘာသာရေး၊ လူမျိုးရေးလှုံ့ဆော်မှုတွေ၊ အမုန်းစကား ပြောနေမှုတွေနဲ့ နေ့စဉ် လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး ခက်ခဲမှုတွေ၊ အလုပ်သမားပြဿနာတွေ စသည်ဖြင့် များလှတဲ့အရေးတွေကို တနှစ်ကျော်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ဘာတွေများ လုပ်ပြီးနေပြီလဲ၊ ဘာတွေ ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ ရှိသလဲဆိုတာ စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာကောင်းလှပါတယ်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Bizfeed, Business

New agreement to open doors for Singapore firms in Myanmar

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Bizfeed, Business

Thailand’s Exim Bank chooses Yangon for first overseas office

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Bizfeed, Business

IFC urged to turn down cement plant partnership

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BY Sean Gleeson

Affairs, Features

As Kachin conflict enters sixth year, trauma and misery linger for displaced women

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BY Sean Gleeson

Affairs, Features

The Tourist Burma building: A (freehold) plot in dispute

Yangon Chief Minister U Phyo Min Thein’s plan to refurbish a grand heritage building overlooking the Sule Pagoda faces a major hurdle: a businessman says his family owns the freehold site and wants it back.

BY Thomas Kean

News Feed, News

Bail denied for pair in military satire case

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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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News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

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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