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NLD members wear masks with Aung San Suu Kyi’s face on them at a campaign event in Pabedan township, Yangon on September 8 (Sai Zaw/Myanmar Now)
Parties mark the start of Myanmar’s pandemic-era election with subdued campaign events
Party office in opposition leader’s target constituency is silent as Suu Kyi cancels opening...
Published on Sep 8, 2020
Government supports prosecuting soldiers over Rohingya killings
Statement from President's Office follows release of report into abuses in Rakhine state
Jan 21, 2020
A pangolin at the Endemic Species Research Institute’s (ESRI) Animal First-aid Station in Taiwan. (Photo Credit: Yu Chih Wei/ The Reporter)
Across Myanmar, pangolins are trafficked in plain sight
Despite laws protecting pangolins, an investigation at major trade hubs found consumption and trade of the nearly extinct animal to be pervasive and brazen.
Dec 27, 2019
Activists deliver a letter in support of the Gambia to the UN office in Natmauk Street, in Tamwe township, Yangon
Ethnic groups show support for Gambia at ICJ
Groups pen letter to counter rallies in support of Suu Kyi’s defence against claims military committed genocide
Dec 13, 2019
Aung San Suu Kyi calls on ICJ to drop genocide case against Myanmar
‘How can the Tatmadaw possibly hold itself to account?’ asks Gambia in genocide hearings that gripped the world
Those in Myanmar who support the Gambia appear outnumbered, but they argue Suu Kyi’s supporters don’t understand what they’re defending
Dec 13, 2019
Last September, a group of Buddhist monks walked in front of the office of Union Solidarity and Development Party in the town of Pathein in the Ayeyarwady Delta to join a rally which which was held to celebrate the success of ‘race and religion’ laws. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
Myanmar public dismisses Buddhist nationalism with a ballot
In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is seen as a victory of the people over the military and its ruling political elite. It’s a price...
Nov 19, 2015
Members of National League for Democracy (NLD) party steer horse-drawn coaches during an election campaign rally in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay region, Myanmar, 24 October 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
In “army town” Pyin Oo Lwin, NLD hopes for victory
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on Sunday, where opposition candidates are mounting a strong challenge to ruling party dominance...
Nov 8, 2015
Thein Nyunt campaigning recently in Yangon. (PHOTO : Myanmar Now/Htet Khaung Lin)
“I have sensed the danger of an ‘elected dictatorship”
Thein Nyunt, chairman of the New National Democracy Party, is a well-known MP in the Lower House of parliament. He was an elected candidate of Thinganggyun Township constituency,...
Nov 7, 2015
A family of Kamans including Than Win, the MP candidate running for a seat in the Rakhine State parliament seen in front of their home in Thandwe. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
Myanmar’s Kaman Muslims look to elections to restore their rights
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...
Nov 6, 2015
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, but found it hard to explain his...
Nov 6, 2015
Dr Aye Maung (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Arakan National Party chairman confident a strong win will bring security for Buddhist Rakhines
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...
Nov 6, 2015
Arakan National Pary (ANP) campaigning in Pauktaw in Rakhine State on 1 November, 2015. Photo: DMG/Mizzima
With Rohingya disenfranchised, NLD takes on nationalists in southern Rakhine
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...
Nov 6, 2015
In Myanmar, not all votes are created equal
When millions of Myanmar citizens go to the polls on Nov. 8, many will be hoping their votes can help make the country a freer and fairer place after half a century of iron-fisted...
Nov 5, 2015

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