An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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The teak trees of the Bago Yoma mountain range have long been a target for illegal logging, but the practice has intensified amid the post-coup chaos, with the involvement of both junta and resistance forces.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဟာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအနည်းဆုံးဒေသဖြစ်ပြီး ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်မှာ ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ်ရဲ့ အကဲဖြတ်ချက်အရ လူ ၁၀ ဦးအနက် ၈ ဦးလောက်ဟာ ဆင်းရဲမွဲတေစွာ နေထိုင်ကြရပါတယ်။ ကျေးလက်နေပြည်သူတွေ သူတို့ရဲ့ကျေးရွာတွေ စီးပွားရေး တည်ငြိမ်မှုရှိရေး၊ သူတို့ရဲ့လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတွေ အစားအစာဖူလုံရေးတို့အတွက် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးအလားအလားကောင်းတွေ ရှိနေဖို့က မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်လှပါတယ်။
A review of the NLD-led government’s performance on its first anniversary reveals a disappointing failure to honour election campaign promises for greater transparency.
BY Debby Chan
Successes and setbacks have marked a challenging first year in office for the NLD as it strives to implement a comprehensive reform agenda.
BY Oliver Slow
Building a working relationship with the Tatmadaw has been one of the NLD government’s most important achievements, but it needs to work harder at managing the economy.
Tired of the chaotic party in Yangon, our writer looks at the options for those who want to escape the city during the Thingyan New Year holiday.
The satirical barbs of Thingyan thangyat performances this year are likely to mock the NLD government over its attitude towards freedom of speech.
BY Htun Khaing
Improved access to the internet has helped breed a new generation of BMX riders in Myanmar – but a stumbling block many of them face is getting permission from their parents.
The number of people who voted in the April 1 by-election fell significantly from 2015, and there are calls for more to be done to drum up interest ahead of the 2020 national poll.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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