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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.

News Feed, News, Features

‘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.

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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Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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Fighting the power? Myanmar hip hop loses its political voice

Business, Features

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

Affairs, Interview, Business

Daw Thiri Thant Mon: ‘Neither side has a long-term view’

Daw Thiri Thant Mon, 38, has returned to Myanmar after a successful international career in investment banking.

Affairs, Interview, Business

Daw Thiri Thant Mon: 'Neither side has a long-term view'

Daw Thiri Thant Mon, 38, left Myanmar in the mid-nineties when the country’s universities were closed, to study economics at William and Mary in the US. She began working in finance at Capital One in the US and the UK before an MBA at the London Business School and joined one of the world’s leading investment banks, Morgan Stanley in London in 2006. Daw Thiri Thant Mon returned to Myanmar in 2013 as Head of Corporate Development for Yoma Strategic Holdings. Since September, she has been running a new company, Sandanila.

Norfund invests in Myanmar microfinance joint venture

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NLD secures absolute majority, can form government

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BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Kachin Facebook activist's health deteriorating

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UEC: Big Four meeting won't affect election result

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BY Soe Than Lynn

Obama congratulates President, Suu Kyi

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BY Geoffrey Goddard

Kachin Facebook activist’s health deteriorating

The wife of a Kachin man on trial for deeming to have defamed the military for a Facebook post has said she is concerned about his health.

BY Frontier

UEC: Big Four meeting won’t affect election result

A meeting between NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and senior political figures will not affect the work of the Union Election Commission, officials say.

BY Soe Than Lynn

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

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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

Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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

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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