Connor Macdonald

With the medical - we just need people in white coats in a clinic. Possible?
Myanmar’s first psychology training clinic to open despite paucity of funding
Plans to open a psychology clinic and training centre, the first of ...
Transparent multi-sectorial development needed in Myanmar’s health sector
Participants at the first Myanmar health forum agreed that ...
Students protest in downtown Yangon, Myanmar on 30 June 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
US concerned at arrests, prison terms of protestors
The US embassy has issued a statement voicing its concern over the recent arrests and prison sentences handed down ...
A Myanmar mobile phone user chatting to friends using Viber application. (Photo: Hkun Lat/Myanmar Now)
Smartphone freedom fuels rise of social media in Myanmar politics
Soon after polls closed in Myanmar’s November 8 elections, photos of the ink-stained fingers of proud voters were plastered across ...
President’s Office Minister U Aung Min talks during the Union Peace Dialogue Joint Committee (UPDJC) meeting at Myanmar Peace Centre in Yangon on 24 November, 2015. Photo: Mizzima
Ceasefire dialogue off to rocky start as parties complain of exclusion
While fighting rages in northern Shan State between Myanmar’s army and ethnic rebel groups that failed to sign a nationwide ceasefire, ...
Parliamentary speaker Thura Shwe Mann, former chairperson of Myanmar's ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) party, delivers a speech from his car during his election campaign at a village in Pyu township of Bago region, Myanmar, 05 October 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Secret USDP document predicts potential USDP annihilation in the elections
Documents obtained by Mizzima include the unreleased reformist ...
Paunglaung dam construction site - Photo: Mizzima
New report highlights ‘devastating human cost’ of Upper Paunglaung Dam project
A report released on October 5 details human rights violations ...
Inya Wing Lobby (Photo - Sedona Hotels)
Sedona Hotel Yangon opens its new Inya wing
Yangon's luxurious Sedona hotel launched its new Inya wing on 1 October. The 29 story expansion to the existing Sedona Hotel ...
Rasul Bi, sister of Fatima Bibi (Photo - Connor Macdonald)
Missing Myanmar pilgrim found alive in hospital, 4 days after stampede
A Myanmar national who went missing after last week’s stampede at the Islamic holy site at Mecca, Saudi Arabia, ...
A plane load of 1,000 family kits donated by the Australian Government arrived in Yangon International Airport on August 10, 2015. Photo: IOM
As water levels recede UN remains committed to recovery effort
The Assistant Secretary-General for Crisis Response in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), Ms Izumi Nakamitsu and ...

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