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The government has distributed six million masks to healthcare workers and people in quarantined areas and has another 3.9 million to hand out, the health ministry has said.
“We have arranged to...
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 Myanmar’s Nov. 8 election.
Myanmar Now carried...
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, but found it hard to explain his instinctive...
In October two years ago, Zaw Lin ran to the top of a forested hill behind his thatch-roof farm house in this tiny hamlet of Pauktaw in Myanmar’s southern Rakhine state.
His family is Muslim. He...
Soe Win, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate, clutches the microphone and paces about as he shouts questions at a crowd of hundreds of Buddhist Rakhine residents in Sin Khaung village...
Aye Maung is the chairman of the Arakan National Party (ANP), the largest political party in Rakhine State of Myanmar after the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) and the...
An Arakan National Party MP became the eighth party member to have his resignation rejected by party leaders on Monday, ANP lawmakers told Myanmar Now.
Kyaw Lwin, MP for Kyaukphyu township...
Across Myanmar’s border states, smaller ethnic parties have been merging into larger groups in an attempt to oust the ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) from local and national seats in the...
State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi’s quest to prise power from the military by amending the constitution has entered a new phase, and it’s one with a lot of paperwork.
After almost five months of...
Since the National League for Democracy (NLD) took power in 2016, the administration has given senior positions to a number of ex-military officers, opposition party members, and other outsiders...
