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Nationwide protests against the coup have been responded with murders, torture and mass arrests by the military regime. (Myanmar Now)
The country’s military leaders have acted with impunity for decades, but now there is a mechanism...
Published on Mar 19, 2021
Myanmar armed forces march during a military parade to mark the country's 67th Union Day ceremony in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 12 February 2014. (Photo: EPA)
At the end of a day’s training in a vast military compound in the suburbs of Yangon, Corporal Khin...
Published on Nov 1, 2015
Nay Zin Latt, former presidential advisor and founder of NDP, speaks at a rally on Oct. 12 in the Mon State capital Mawlamyine, where he pledged to protect Myanmar's race and Buddhist religion. (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
With just weeks before Myanmar’s landmark elections, a fleet of cars covered with stickers of the...
Published on Oct 29, 2015
Mi Kon Chan speaking to the public in Paung Township in Mon State. (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Mi Kon Chan comes from a distinguished family in Mon state in eastern Myanmar. Her father is the...
Published on Oct 22, 2015
Migrant workers operate on a fishing boat in Mae Klong district, Samut Songkhram province, Thailand, 07 May 2015. Photo:Narong Sangnak/EPA
It is estimated that 2.5 to 3 million Myanmar workers are toiling away in Thailand, at least half a...
Published on Oct 20, 2015
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

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