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‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

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.

By Frontier

Features

‘Loyalty and experience’: the NLD’s election line-up

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.

By Frontier

Features

KNU heavyweight prepares for election battle

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.

By Naw Betty Han

Culture

Dubious legends

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.

By Myint Myat Thu

Ko Ni murder trial reaches climax

A Yangon court will soon deliver judgment against four men on trial over the killing of NLD legal adviser U Ko Ni, while the alleged mastermind remains at large.

By Ye Mon

News Feed, News

On anniversary of U Ko Ni’s murder, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls for ‘truth’

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By Ye Mon

News Feed, Features

ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်အပြီး အမိန့်ချဖို့ နီးကပ်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ဦးကိုနီအမှု

ရှေ့နေကြီးဦးကိုနီကို လုပ်ကြံသတ်ဖြတ်မှုနဲ့ စွဲချက်တင်ခံထားရသူတွေကို စစ်ဆေးနေတာ ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်ပြီး မကြာခင်မှာပဲ တရားရုံးက အမိန့်ချမှတ်တော့မှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

By Ye Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Drug cases and the stench of dirty money

Drug cases present opportunities for some lawyers and police to pocket handsome sums while perverting the course of justice.

By Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News

Myanmar’s first LGBT pride boat parade sets sail

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By AFP

News Feed, Features

LGBT အရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွေ ပိုမို အားကောင်းလာ

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ LGBT အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက ရင်ဆိုင်နေရတဲ့ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတွေ ရှိနေသေးပေမယ့် ပြောင်းလဲလာတဲ့ လက္ခဏာတွေလည်း ရှိနေပါတယ်။

By Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

UN expert urges caution on Bangladesh’s Rohingya island ‘relocation’ plan

Bangladesh must not rush to relocate Rohingya refugees, a top UN rights official said, amid plans to move the community to an island vulnerable to extreme monsoon weather.

By AFP

Bizfeed, Photo Essays, Business, Features

Weavers of traditional textiles in Mandalay unite

Weavers of traditional textiles in Mandalay Region have joined forces in an attempt to counter a threat to the industry from cheap copies imported from China and India.

By Kyaw Ye Lynn

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UN expert urges caution on Bangladesh's Rohingya island 'relocation' plan

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By AFP

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Volume 6, Issue 7

August 11, 2020

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Shan farmer’s killing leaves villagers burning with anger

After the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 people marched in protest.

Editorial, Opinion

Democracy without the dividend

It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.

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