People displaced in northern Shan State are hoping that the November 8 election will be their last in the camps they would rather not be calling home.
BY Hein Thar
People displaced in northern Shan State are hoping that the November 8 election will be their last in the camps they would rather not be calling home.
BY Hein Thar
As COVID-19 cases mount in Yangon, the government has ordered townships to open quarantine centres but is not providing any financial support.
If the government really wants to introduce a fair framework for defamation, it needs to overhaul or replace all six related laws.
BY Frontier
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Rohingya politician and human rights activist Abu Taher is no rookie. He ran for parliament for the National Democratic Party for Development in the 2010 elections and won the Upper House seat for Buthidaung, Rakhine State. But the Union Election Commission accused him of breaking campaigning laws, and after a grueling, year-long appeal process his opponent from the Union Solidarity and Development Party was finally awarded the seat.
BY Hans Hulst
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Under a bridge in downtown Yangon, a few dozen young rappers gather for a late night jam session, leaping around the cracked pavement and rusty beams, flinging words into the air like shrapnel. One slaps a stencil against a pillar and spray paints it black, leaving the words “G-FAMILY” enshrined on the concrete.
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