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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

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‘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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Karen ceasefire frays under Tatmadaw road-building push

Tatmadaw road-building in Kayin State has sparked clashes and mass displacement, threatening the ceasefire with the Karen National Union and dimming hopes ahead of the next Union Peace Conference.

BY Frontier

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Myanmar's last generation of tattooed headhunters

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BY AFP

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Playing cat and mouse on a Rakhine reporting tour

The Ministry of Information regularly arranges trips to northern Rakhine State for journalists and interesting encounters occur when their minders’ backs are turned.

BY Konrad Staehelin

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှအီးစီးကရက်၏အနာဂတ်မီးခိုးတိမ်တိုက်

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အီးစီးကရက် သောက်သုံးမှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေမှာ မပြတ်သားသေးဘဲရှိနေရာ ကျန်းမာရေးနှင့် အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် သက်ဆိုင်ရာက ဥပဒေမပြဋ္ဌာန်းနိုင်မီ အီးစီးကရက်ကို ပိတ်ပင်လာနိုင်ပေသည်။

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News

Myanmar’s last generation of tattooed headhunters

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head.

BY AFP

News Feed, News

Maldives gets Amal Clooney to fight for Rohingya at UN court

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BY AFP

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ဦးတီခွန်မြတ်အတွက် ခက်ခဲသောနေ့ရက်များ

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ခမ်းနားထည်ဝါလှသောခန်းမကြီးထဲ၌ ရွှေရောင်တဖိတ်ဖိတ်တောက်နေသော “ကျိုင်း” ကိုရှေ့တွင်ထားကာ ရွှေပိန်းချထားသောထိုင်ခုံထက်တွင် ရွှေရောင်အနားကွတ်ဖိုးဖဲကတ္တီပါဝတ်စုံဖြင့် ထိုင်ပြီးတိုင်းရေးပြည်ရာများကိုဆောင်ရွက်ရသည်မှာ နိုင်ငံရေးသမားများမက်ချင်သောအိမ်မက်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

Podcast: Disabled women surviving sexual assault

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

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A plea for Kachin unity, as dispute creates rift

A long-running dispute over ethnic identification has created a rift within the diverse Kachin community and has prompted a prominent leader to issue an appeal for unity.

BY Frontier

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

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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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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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