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Staring March 17,  the country no longer has a single independent newspaper in publication.
The closure of Myanmar’s last independent newspaper marks a new milestone in the country’s...
Published on Mar 18, 2021
Myanmar expats wait in line to cast their vote outside the Myanmar Embassy building in Singapore, 15 October 2015. (Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA)
The details of that morning 25 years ago are hazy but Than Than Aye remembers vividly the palpable...
Published on Oct 17, 2015
A Mosque in Yangon near Sule. (Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima)
On Nov. 8, Myanmar will go to the polls in what has been billed as the first free and fair...
Published on Oct 16, 2015
Hla Toe, vice chairman of Kaman National Progressive Party. (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Hla Toe, vice chairman of the Kaman National Progressive Party, is contesting for a Lower House...
Published on Oct 15, 2015
Calling for donations to save cattle, a roadside poster in the Ayeyarwady Delta town of Kyaungon depicts an image of a cow and a verse glorifying the animal's mythical role as "mother" to mankind. (Myanmar Now)
Since late 2013, a campaign supported by Ma Ba Tha has forced dozens of Muslim-owned...
Published on Oct 13, 2015
People vote at a polling station in the Mayangone township of Yangon, Myanmar, 01 April 2012. (Photo: Thet Htoo/EPA)
It was early afternoon, but the small prayer hall was dark, its walls and pillars lined with wooden...
Published on Oct 12, 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)
It’s the National League for Democracy or nothing, according to a straw poll of voters in Yangon...
Published on Oct 10, 2015
Khin Ma Ma Myo, founder of the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security Studies (PHOTO : Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
Khin Ma Ma Myo is the founder and executive director of the Yangon-based Myanmar Institute for...
Published on Oct 8, 2015
USDP members campaigning in Myaungmya in September, 2015. (Photo: Mizzima)
On a recent hot afternoon on a bustling street in Hlaing Thayar Township, residents and stall...
Published on Oct 5, 2015
Campaigners in Mandalay region. (Photo: Aung Ko Oo/Mizzima)
In a packed, windowless room, 40 or so candidates preparing to run in Myanmar’s general election...
Published on Sep 14, 2015
Buying underage girls for sex is fuelled in part by a belief that sleeping with virgins has health benefits, such as long life and curing HIV (Photo - Khun Latt / Myanmar Now)
RANGOON — Sixteen-year-old Wut Yee, left to fend for herself and her younger brother, was relieved...
Published on Aug 13, 2015

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