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Demonstrators hold pots with flowers to mark the Thingyan Water Festival as they march during an anti-military coup protest in Mandalay on April 13 (EPA-EFE)
The year’s most important holiday is normally a festive time, but this year, few are in the mood for fun
Apr 15, 2021
People pass the central vaccine depot on Min Dhama road on January 6. (Photo: Sai Zaw / Myanmar Now)
It took just one week for police to find the culprits responsible for the disappearance of nearly $35,000 worth of vaccines
Jan 20, 2021
Myanmar migrant workers are tested for Covid-19 in Mahachai, in Thailand’s Samut Sakhon province, in the first week of January 2021. (Photo: Supplied)
Discrimination has made the resurgence of the coronavirus in Thailand especially hard on Myanmar workers
Jan 10, 2021
Local people hold up signs expressing their opposition to a fertilizer factory at a meeting held on December 29. (K Zun Nway / Myanmar Now)
People living near the plant say that the smell emanating from it is unbearable
Jan 8, 2021
Volunteers assist in the Ayeyarwady Covid-19 treatment centre’s ICU room on November 20. (Photo: Phyo Htet Aung / Myanmar Now) 
In a country where healthcare has long been neglected by those in power, volunteers play an indispensable role in dealing with a deadly crisis
Jan 3, 2021
Ye Ye Nywe at the house where her family members were killed (Myanmar Now)
Myanmar Now investigation finds police appear to have lied about forensic doctor’s finding in case that shocked the country
Dec 31, 2020
A gun-driller holds an air gun near the entrance to a pit. (Photo: Kay Zun Nwe / Myanmar Now)
‘Gun disease,’ a condition afflicting miners who use air guns to extract tin and tungsten, is killing hundreds in Kayah state
Dec 31, 2020
Illustration: (Moe Htet Lyan / Myanmar Now)
A company tied to ruling party MPs is still working to develop a resort area in southern Rakhine state, despite being dissolved last year
Dec 22, 2020
The KySDP campaigning in September before the election. (Photo: Kay Zun Nwai / Myanmar Now) 
The NLD’s failure to win an outright majority in the state means that it will have to find a way to work with a local rival
Dec 9, 2020
The wives of the abductees from Tin Ma Gyi village hold a press conference in Sittwe in April (Photo: Myat Tun)
The abduction of civilians in Rakhine state has added to the hardships of family members displaced by war
Dec 4, 2020
Over 40 people lost their lives and many more were left homeless in the wake of riots that hit Meiktila in 2013. (Yan Moe Naing/Myanmar Now) 
After years of communal tensions, the people of Meiktila are counting on the ruling party to restore peace and stability
Nov 21, 2020
Military representatives are seen walking out of the Shan state parliament meeting hall in 2019. (Myat Moe Thu/Myanmar Now) 
A shift in the state’s electoral map has opened up the possibility of power-sharing with ethnic parties
Nov 20, 2020
Ye Min Oo and Nandar Hla Myint, leading figures from two rival parties and also business partners
Ye Min Oo is tipped to be the next chief minister of Yangon, but he has deep ties to military-linked corporations
Nov 7, 2020

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