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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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Following Theroux

Writer Paul Theroux visited Myanmar in the 1970s while gathering material for The Great Railway Bazaar. Following in his footsteps decades later, little has changed on Myanmar’s railways.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features

Myanmar goes back to school

The Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious project to completely rebuild Myanmar's outmoded education system.

BY Jared Downing

Features, Culture

Abandoned distractions, uncertain futures in junta theme park

In a forgotten corner of Yangon, a theme park feted by the former junta now lies derelict, with its residents facing an uncertain future.

BY Joshua Carroll

Business

Myanmar's tycoons unfazed by NLD victory

Some of the nation’s tycoons have shrugged off concerns about the future of their business empires under a National League for Democracy government.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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မြန်မာစပါးကြီးမြွေ ပါဝင်ထိုးသတ်မည့် ရန်ကုန်က အမ်အမ်အေပွဲ

ကိုယ်ခံပညာပေါင်းစုံ ပေါင်းစပ်ထိုးသတ်ရသည့် အဆိုပါ ပြိုင်ပွဲကို မတ် ၁၈ ရက်တွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ သုဝဏ္ဏအားကစားရုံတွင် ကျင်းပသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier

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လွှတ်တော်သစ်များ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်စမည်

ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများတွင် အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့အချုပ်က အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်အတွက် ၁၃၅ ဦး၊ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်အတွက် ၂၅၅ ဦး၊ စုစုပေါင်း ၃၉၀ ဦး အနိုင်ရရှိထား

BY Frontier

Affairs, Interview

Thant Myint-U: ‘Creating a shared identity is Myanmar’s top challenge’

Interview with Thant Myint-U, presidential adviser and Yangon Heritage Trust chair.

BY Frontier

Business, Features

Myanmar’s tycoons unfazed by NLD victory

Some of the nation’s tycoons have shrugged off concerns about the future of their business empires under a National League for Democracy government.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Bizfeed, Business

Taiwan confirms Myanmar migrant recruitment decision

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BY Frontier & Frontier

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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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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