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2020 Election, News

Internal migrants risk mass disenfranchisement

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters could lose their right to cast a ballot in November thanks to a vote transfer system that shifts the burden from electoral authorities to voters.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

2020 Election, News

Internal migrants risk mass disenfranchisement

Hundreds of thousands of eligible voters could lose their right to cast a ballot in November thanks to a vote transfer system that shifts the burden from electoral authorities to voters.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

2020 Election, News

Serving ‘the general’: Inside the Union Betterment Party

U Shwe Mann’s party has grown rapidly thanks to the wealth and influence of its leaders, but their military backgrounds cast doubt on its claim.

BY Swe Lei Mon

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Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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Amid COVID-19, a shackled broadcast media narrows the space for political competition

Business, Features

The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

2020 Election, Features

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

Bizfeed, Business

IFC to invest $7.5m in Myanmar Awba rural finance scheme: report

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs, Features

Revenge porn on the rise

Privacy violations involving revenge pornography are on the rise in Myanmar but seeking legal remedy can be a daunting experience for victims.

BY Jaiden Coonan

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With an eye to reform, USDP to hold annual conference in July

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BY Htun Khaing & Mratt Kyaw Thu

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မီဒီယာများနှင့် ပုံမှန်တွေ့ဆုံရန် ပြည်ထောင်စုအစိုးရအဖွ့ဲ စီစဉ်နေ

မီဒီယာနဲ့ အစိုးရတာဝန်ရှိသူတွေအကြား ဆက်သွယ်မှု ပိုမိုမြန်ဆန်စေမှာဖြစ်ပြီး သတင်းစီးဆင်းမှု ပိုမိုမြန်ဆန်လာလိမ့်မယ်လို့ ယုံကြည်ကြောင်း ဦးဖေမြင့်က ပြောပါတယ်။

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ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးပါတီ ဗဟိုညီလာခံကို ဇူလိုင်တွင် ကျင်းပရန် လျာထား

ပါတီ၏ ဗဟိုကော်မတီအစည်းအဝေးကို ယနေ့ ဧပြီ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် နေပြည်တော်ရှိ ပါတီရုံးချုပ်တွင် ကျင်းပနေသည်

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, News

Former president to establish ‘Thein Sein Centre’

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BY Htun Khaing & Mratt Kyaw Thu

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21 die in boat capsize off Rakhine coast

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BY AFP

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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ကမ်းလွန်တွင် လှေနစ်မြုပ်မှုကြောင့် ကလေး ကိုးဦးအပါအဝင် အနည်းဆုံး ၂၁ ဦး သေဆုံး

လှေသည် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရသူများကို ထားရှိသည့် စခန်းတစ်ခုမှ ခရီးသည် ၆၀ ခန့်ကို တင်ဆောင်လာခဲ့သည်ဟု ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ပြောကြားသည်

BY AFP

Bizfeed, Business

FDI sets record $9.4b last year, Singapore tops list of investors

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BY Frontier & Frontier

‘We miss our families and we want to come home’: reporters held in hotel room for weeks

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

Doh Athan

Podcast: A minor’s tale

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Volume 6, Issue 11

October 7, 2020

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magazine, 2020 Election, Editorial, Opinion

Time to take away the election commission’s red pen

The Union Election Commission’s censoring of political party speeches underscores the need for Myanmar to unambiguously enshrine freedom of expression in law.

2020 Election, News

Serving ‘the general’: Inside the Union Betterment Party

U Shwe Mann’s party has grown rapidly thanks to the wealth and influence of its leaders, but their military backgrounds cast doubt on its claim.

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