The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.
The eagerly-awaited release of the National League for Democracy’s candidates’ list contained few surprises, but as in 2015 there’s been controversy over who was nominated or rejected.
Lifelong revolutionary Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung speaks to Frontier’s Naw Betty Han about his decision to resign as a senior Karen National Union leader in order to make a run for parliament.
A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.
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Residents of coastal villages in Tanintharyi Region say their livelihoods have been hurt by work on an LNG-fired power project involving European companies Total and Siemens.
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်အတွက် စမ်းသပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေသလို အစိုးရကို လူထုနှင့် ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သွားစေလိမ့်မည်ဖြစ်သော်လည်း တချို့ကတော့ အလျင်စလို နိုင်လွန်းမည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်။
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In the fields near Minhla in Magway Region, informal oil entrepreneurs scramble from site to site in the hope of striking lucky.
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A poor community cites decades of land dispossession and environmental degradation in their opposition to a Thai-operated tin mine in rural Dawei Township.
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