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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

Seven years after Buddhist mobs burned down mosques and slaughtered dozens of children at an Islamic school, hundreds of Muslims remain displaced and they say the NLD government has done little to help heal or rebuild since.

BY Swe Lei Mon

News Feed, News, Features

‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

BY Swe Lei Mon

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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India reports big rise in seizures of gold smuggled from Myanmar

Authorities in India confiscated gold worth about US$543,000 (K735 million) earlier this month in the latest seizure of the precious metal being smuggled into the country from Myanmar, media reports said.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

NGOs urge release of all political prisoners on third anniversary of NLD stalwart’s death

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs, Features

A cyberspace solution for monitoring hate speech

Two tech whizzes are developing artificial intelligence software that will provide groups that counter hate speech with a powerful research tool.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဟာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအနည်းဆုံးဒေသဖြစ်ပြီး ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်မှာ ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ်ရဲ့ အကဲဖြတ်ချက်အရ လူ ၁၀ ဦးအနက် ၈ ဦးလောက်ဟာ ဆင်းရဲမွဲတေစွာ နေထိုင်ကြရပါတယ်။ ကျေးလက်နေပြည်သူတွေ သူတို့ရဲ့ကျေးရွာတွေ စီးပွားရေး တည်ငြိမ်မှုရှိရေး၊ သူတို့ရဲ့လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတွေ အစားအစာဖူလုံရေးတို့အတွက် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးအလားအလားကောင်းတွေ ရှိနေဖို့က မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်လှပါတယ်။

BY Jennifer Macintyre

Affairs, Features

Slow progress: A timeline of the NLD’s first year in office

Successes and setbacks have marked a challenging first year in office for the NLD as it strives to implement a comprehensive reform agenda.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features

Thangyat under scrutiny as NLD goes back to the past

The satirical barbs of Thingyan thangyat performances this year are likely to mock the NLD government over its attitude towards freedom of speech.

BY Htun Khaing

Photo Essays, Affairs, Features, Culture

Pulling tricks

Improved access to the internet has helped breed a new generation of BMX riders in Myanmar – but a stumbling block many of them face is getting permission from their parents.

BY Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe

Affairs, Features

Election authorities lament low voter turnout

The number of people who voted in the April 1 by-election fell significantly from 2015, and there are calls for more to be done to drum up interest ahead of the 2020 national poll.

BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

Authorities begin shuttering three Rakhine IDP camps

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BY AFP

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, Backpage, Opinion

Fever dream: inside a Yangon fever clinic at the epicentre of the pandemic

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

Doh Athan

Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

Doh Athan

Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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

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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.

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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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