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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

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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

BY Swe Lei Mon

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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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Kachin activist Nang Pu released from prison on health grounds

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BY Emily Fishbein

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‘I wish others would vote’: high stakes, low turnout in Yangon election

Yangon holds its first municipal elections in more than 60 years with universal adult suffrage, but most residents stay shy of the polling stations.

BY Su Myat Mon, Ye Mon, Mratt Kyaw Thu & Kyaw Lin Htoon

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လူထုစိတ်ဝင်စားမှု နည်းပါးစွာဖြင့် ရန်ကုန်စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများ ပြီးစီး

ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်စည်ပင်သာယာရေးကော်မတီ အဆင့်ဆင့် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ပွဲကို ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ယနေ့ (မတ် ၃၁ ရက်)က ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ စိတ်ဝင်စားသူနည်းပါးခဲ့ပြီး မဲစာရင်းတွင် အမည်မပါရှိသဖြင့် မဲပေးခွင့်မရသူများလည်းရှိခဲ့သလို မဲသွားရောက်မပေးခဲ့သူ အများအပြားရှိခဲ့သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu, Su Myat Mon, Ye Mon & Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Losing steam on Myanmar’s railways

Train-loving photographers are helping to keep Myanmar’s last steam locomotives rolling but not for much longer, thanks to big-budget railway upgrades.

BY Florian Guckelsberger

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Myanmar seizes largest crystal meth haul this year

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BY AFP

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The Arakan Army and the ‘storm of the revolution’

The deputy leader of the Arakan Army tells Frontier in the border town of Laiza in Kachin State about the group’s shift in focus to Rakhine State and why the Rakhine people may have to endure more suffering in the years ahead.

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News

Hope, frustration at pre-Panglong civil society peace forum

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BY Emily Fishbein

News Feed, News, Affairs

Campaign finance black holes in Yangon's election

Campaigning for municipal elections in Yangon has revealed ambiguities around campaign finance that could open the door to corruption.

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Campaign finance black holes in Yangon’s election

Campaigning for municipal elections in Yangon has revealed ambiguities around campaign finance that could open the door to corruption.

BY Ye Mon & Su Myat Mon

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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

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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

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Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

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Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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

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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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