Htet Khaung Linn

A night-time view of an area near Yangon's Pansodan Bridge where sex workers are known to solicit customers. Photo: Hkun Lat /Myanmar Now
Poverty drives Myanmar girls into underage sex work
Sixteen-year-old Wut Yee, left to fend for herself and her younger brother, was relieved when her exhausted mother finally ...
NLD spokesperson Nyan Win seen in the party’s headquarters in Yangon. (Credit: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now)
‘The NLD has more than 10 people qualified for the presidential post’
The National League for Democracy (NLD) is currently in the process of forming a government following its landslide victory in the November 8...
More than 97 bird species can be found in the Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State. (Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now)
Gold mining, conflict threaten Myanmar’s Indawgyi Lake
Khaung Tong Creek was a 1.5-meter deep, pristine creek some 10 years ago, but these days this important tributary of Kachin State’s ...
Traffic congestion on Anawrahta Road in downtown Yangon. Photo: Mizzima
Yangon gridlock: solutions elusive as traffic chokes city
Than Htwe lives in Hlaing Tharyar, a sprawling township 20 km west of central Yangon, but his job is in downtown.
A small museum showcases some stuffed versions of the roughly 1,500 species of wildlife in Chatthin sanctuary. (Credit: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now) 
In Myanmar’s dry zone, a unique forest and deer species are under threat
In the heart of Myanmar’s central dry zone there are two protected forest areas that are home to word’s largest populations of ...
Ten significant laws the parliament had amended or passed (2011-2015)
The Telecommunication Law was enacted on Oct. 8, 2013. It was aimed at developing the telecoms sector, including establishing ...
President Thein Sein's government has surprised many over the last four years. USDP MPs in Parliament Photo: Mizzima
Myanmar Parliament gets mixed scores for performance near end of term
When Myanmar’s current Parliament first convened in 2011 following a flawed general election, most observers and opposition members ...
Military personnel and their family members waited at the entrance of an army hospital in Yangon’s Mingalardon township to vote in the general elections last month. (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Litany of election complaints submitted to Myanmar police
For 53-year-old cartoonist Hla Khin, appearing in court will be a novel experience. The resident of Yangon’s South Dagon township said ...
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.
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) 
Beyond NLD, Yangon voters stumped on smaller parties
It’s the National League for Democracy or nothing, according to a straw poll of voters in Yangon townships carried out ...

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