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The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

Features

The people’s grief and their right to closure

By Oliver Slow

Opinion

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

By Ben Dunant

Culture

Dubious legends

A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.

By Myint Myat Thu

Questioning the official line on Rakhine

The government’s blanket rejection of abuse allegations in Maungdaw and refusal to conduct a serious investigation may be popular in Myanmar, but will make it harder to address the issues underpinning the insurgency.

By Oliver Slow

News Feed, News

LGBT beauty queen behind bars after actress files defamation suit

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By Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Affairs, Interview, Culture

“ကလေးတွေ ပညာသင်ခွင့်ရဖို့ ကျွန်မတို့ ကြိုးစားတယ်” မစ္စ ဖရန်ဆက်စ်ကွန်

ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ချတ်ထရီယမ် ဟိုတယ်မှာ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၂ ရက်မှာ ကျင်းပတဲ့ Music for Myanmar ရန်ပုံငွေပွဲကို Link for Aid ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့က စီစဉ်ကျင်းပတာဖြစ်ပြီး ယင်းပရဟိတအဖွဲ့ တည်ထောင်သူ ခရီးသွားစာရေးဆရာမ မစ္စ ပါမီလာ မက်ကုတ် ဖရန်ဆက်စ်ကွန် Pamela

By Frontier

Affairs, Interview, Culture

ကလေးတွေ ပညာသင်ခွင့်ရဖို့ ကျွန်မတို့ ကြိုးစားတယ် မစ္စ ဖရန်ဆက်စ်ကွန်

By Frontier

Bizfeed, Business

Out with the old as Myanmar restricts used car imports

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By AFP

News Feed, News

More than 4 million Myanmar people living abroad: UNFPA

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By Oliver Slow

Photo Essays, Features

Bridging the divide in Bilu Kyun

A bridge being built across the Thanlwin River at Mawlamyine will bring positive change to scenic, rural Bilu Kyun but some residents worry about the possible negative impact of development on the environment.

By Hein Ko Soe

Affairs, Features

‘Smiling’ Irrawaddy dolphins on brink of extinction

Loved for generations for corralling the catch into fishermen's nets, Irrawaddy dolphins are being killed in record numbers in recent years.

By AFP

News, Affairs

Sceptical drivers say seatbelts not needed in Yangon

Road accidents and fatalities are rising but many Yangon motorists don’t see the need to wear seatbelts – apparently unaware that the devices can protect them from awful injuries, or worse.

By Su Myat Mon

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

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Features

Out of the wild: Myanmar’s controversial plan to harvest endangered species

Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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