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‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.

By Frontier

Features

‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.

By Frontier

Features

KNU heavyweight prepares for election battle

Lifelong revolutionary Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung speaks to Frontier’s Naw Betty Han about his decision to resign as a senior Karen National Union leader in order to make a run for parliament.

By Naw Betty Han

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

Yangon’s Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

By Jared Downing

News, Affairs, Features

The lost dream of affordable housing

High land prices and a shortage of low-cost housing means that many Yangon residents can only ever dream of owning a home of their own.

By Hein Ko Soe

Culture

Yangon's Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

By Jared Downing

News Feed

ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှစ်ခုအား ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် လက်လွှဲမည်

လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့အတွက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်နှစ်ဦးအား ထပ်မံခန့်အပ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်။

By Soe Than Lynn

News Feed

အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေကြမ်း ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ရောက်ပြီ

ဥပဒေအတည်ပြုပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အနေဖြင့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာ သုံးရပ်စလုံးတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့် ရရှိသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

By Soe Than Lynn

News, Affairs

Flood misery lingers for many

Shortages of adequate supplies of safe, nutritious food continue to affect poor rural communities hit hard by last year’s floods, says a report by two UN agencies.

By Oliver Slow

News, Affairs

Mixed reaction to new ethnic ministry

The decision to create a Ministry of Ethnic Affairs has been welcomed by many but some worry it will reduce the influence of ethnic MPs in the Union Parliament.

By Mratt Kyaw Thu

News

New government to face challenges for economic progress: ADB

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By Sann Oo

News Feed

သမ္မတအထက်ကို ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ရောက်သွားတော့မှာလား

အဆိုပါ ဥပဒေအား ပြဌာန်းပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့အား တာဝန်ခံ ဦးဆောင်နိုင်မည်ဖြစ်သည်

By Soe Than Lynn

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 7

August 11, 2020

Stories in this issue

Features

Shan farmer’s killing leaves villagers burning with anger

After the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 people marched in protest.

Editorial, Opinion

Democracy without the dividend

It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.

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By Naw Betty Han

By Myint Myat Thu

Highlights

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By Jared Downing

By Hein Ko Soe

By Jared Downing

By Soe Than Lynn

By Soe Than Lynn

By Oliver Slow

By Mratt Kyaw Thu

By Sann Oo

By Soe Than Lynn

Opinion

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Shan farmer’s killing leaves villagers burning with anger

Democracy without the dividend

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