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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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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးမူဝါဒကို မပြောင်းလဲပဲ နည်းလမ်းအသစ်ဖြင့် ချဉ်းကပ်မည်

ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ကြွယ်ဝချမ်းသာမှု၊ ချစ်ကြည်ရင်းနှီးမှုတွေကို ဒေသတွင်းသာမက တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးခံစားနိုင်တဲ့ အခွင့်အလမ်းအနေနဲ့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြောင်းလည်း ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ပြောကြားခဲ့တယ်

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Photo Essays, Affairs, Features

The healing of Meiktila

Three years after it was torn apart by communal violence, Meiktila continues a slow recovery that is being aided by efforts to promote interfaith understanding.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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

News Feed, News

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

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

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Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

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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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