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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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Wa delegation walks out of Panglong conference

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Thai kingpin jailed for Rohingya trafficking

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BY AFP

Affairs, Features

Social media shines a light on Myanmar’s taboo topics

Myanmar’s social media boom is enabling people to speak up – whether it’s to complain to the government, help keep aggressive bus drivers off Yangon’s roads or make a dangerous expressway safer.

BY Frontier

Affairs, Features

The new political playing field

Political allegiances in the real world are reflected in debates and arguments on Facebook, but the social media platform remains plagued by hate speech and fake accounts.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Photo Essays, Features

Shock FX

Gruesome injuries, dangling eyeballs and dripping blood are among the creative repertoire of a small but growing number of special effects make-up artists working in the movie industry.

BY Thi Ri Han

Affairs, Features

Panglong 21 and the long search for peace

The 21^st Century Panglong conference is a symbolic step toward peace and national reconciliation, but huge challenges remain.

BY Oliver Slow

News Feed

၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံံ၌ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့သည်များ အလဟဿ မဖြစ်စေရန် စီစဉ်မည်

အပြန်အလှန်ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းနဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းတွေ ပြုလုပ်ဖို့မရှိတဲ့ ၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံကြီးက ဆွေးနွေးချက်များကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရုံသာမကဘဲ မကြာခင်မှာ နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ ပြုလုပ်သွားဖို့စီစဉ်နေတဲ့ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွေမှာ အသုံးပြုသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

BY Frontier

Affairs, Business, Features

Telecoms boom fuels fierce competition in used phone market

The competition for secondhand and counterfeit mobile phones is intense in a market that’s been flooded with the products since the telecoms sector was liberalised in 2013.

BY Thi Ri Han

News Feed, News

UN chief calls on Myanmar to make Rohingya citizens

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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

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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