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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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A bird on the brink

A small, handsome bird once believed to be extinct faces a precarious future because its habitat is being destroyed to make way for oil palm plantations.

BY Htun Khaing

Affairs, Features, Culture

The religion of business

For many Myanmar businesses, religious rites and rituals are as standard as signing a lease or putting up a signboard – the benefits, though, are a matter of faith.

BY Jared Downing

News Feed, Breaking News, News

Seven alleged militants killed in Maungdaw

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Affairs, Business, Features

Treasury bond auctions: A step in the right direction

The launch of treasury bond auctions by the government is a move toward more efficient public debt management that should result in lower inflation.

BY Jakob Krembzow

Affairs, Features

Substitute justice

Police are allowing criminals to avoid prison by substituting others in their place, in a practice that observers say is undermining the integrity of the justice system and efforts to combat organised crime.

BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

Tiger parts trade at Mong La tripled in 8 years, says watchdog

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မောင်တောတွင် နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေးကို တပ်မတော်က အရှိန်မြှင့် ဆောင်ရွက်နေ

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့သို့ ယနေ့ မွန်းတည့် ၁၂ နာရီခန့်က စတင်ကာ တပ်မတော်သားများ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီး နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး လုပ်ငန်းများကို အရှိန်မြှင့်တင် စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Breaking News, News

Militants kill nine police, seize weapons in Maungdaw

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed

မောင်တော တိုက်ခိုက်မှု၌ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ကိုးဦးသေဆုံး၊ ခရိုင်တစ်ခုလုံး ညမထွက်ရအချိန် တိုးမြှင့်

မောင်တောမြို့တွင် ယနေ့ နံနက်က ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့နှင့် အကြမ်းဖက် အဖွဲ့အစည်းတို့အကြား တိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်ကိုးဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီးနောက် မောင်တောခရိုင်တခုလုံးအတွင်း ညမထွက်ရအချိန်ကို ယခင်ကထက် တင်းကြပ်လိုက်ပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Frontier & 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.

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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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