Ei Cherry Aung

Ei Cherry Aung
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Shocked bystanders gather around an abandoned newborn found in Mingalar Taung Nyunt township, and a lactating mother immediately breast-feeds the baby, on May 12in Yangon. Photo: Thidar Han / Myanmar Now
Abandoned Babies Indicate Single Mother, Sex Education Problems
YANGON — During a power blackout on a hot night in May, Thidar Han heard a baby crying at around 9 pm in a back lane of Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt...
Published on Jun 7, 2016
A woman on a balcony in an apartment block in Thinganggyun Township, Yangon, with USDP campaign material bearing the president's image, on Nov. 3. (PHOTO: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
Ruling USDP commands shy support in Myanmar’s elections
Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zaw took a day’s leave from his office job this week to join a political rally of the Union Solidarity and Development Party,...
Published on Nov 6, 2015
Phyu Phyu Nyunt, NUP candidate for the Yangon Region Parliament. (PHOTO:- Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now)
“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP) in Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township’s constituency 2. She has...
Published on Nov 1, 2015
Hla Toe, vice chairman of Kaman National Progressive Party. (Photo: Myanmar Now)
‘A new government should be able to end any riot’
Hla Toe, vice chairman of the Kaman National Progressive Party, is contesting for a Lower House seat in Yangon’s Mingalar Taung Nyunt Township, in...
Published on Oct 15, 2015
A young supporter holds the picture of Aung San, father of Aung San Suu Kyi and Myanmar's founding father, on Martyrs' Day commemorations in Yangon, July 19, 2015. (PHOTO : Myanmar Now/ Hkun Lat)
Beyond NLD, Yangon voters stumped on smaller parties
It’s the National League for Democracy or nothing, according to a straw poll of voters in Yangon townships carried out with four weeks to go before...
Published on Oct 10, 2015