Myanmar Now

WFP staff briefing the flood-affected communities of Magway Division in Central Myanmar on the ration size of the food commodities they are about to receive. Photo: Aung Khaing Win/WFP
‘Myanmar is still the third-most malnourished country in Southeast Asia’
The United Nations’ World Food Programme (WFP) in Myanmar is facing a funding shortfall of $51 million to meet all the needs till the end of 2016.
Ja Seng Hkawn at her riverside home in Myitkyina. (PHOTO:- Thin Lei Win/Myanmar Now) 
A Kachin leader’s legacy lives on through his daughter
For much of the first 20 years of her life, Maran Ja Seng Hkawn was raised by her grandmothers in Kachin, Myanmar’s northernmost state, ...
Ba Hein, Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Natural Resources for Ayeyawaddy Region. Photo: Myanmar Now
‘Social inequality is big in Ayeyawaddy Region’
Ba Hein, 72, is the Minister for Agriculture, Livestock, Natural Resources for Ayeyawaddy Region.
ILO representatives, Wai Hnin Po and Hkun Sa Mun Htoi, discuss the treatment of housemaids in Myanmar, many of whom are often children from poor families who are vulnerable to abuse. Photo: Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now
Legal protections towards housemaids should be changed, says ILO
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) has long had an office in Myanmar that focused on ending forced labour, ...
Prisoners working at a plantation site in Rezajo prison labor camp in Kalay township in Sagaing Region. Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now
Prisoners in Mandalay Region protest for better conditions
Hundreds of prisoners held in a jail in Mandalay Region held a rare protest on Tuesday calling for the replacement of ...
Kyaw Win are seen in an army-built community called Thudhammawaddy Ward, in Mon State. Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now
On society’s fringes, disabled Myanmar veterans languish in poverty
By 1999 Sein Kyaw Win had already survived 24 years of service as a foot soldier in the Myanmar army’s long war against ...
A Myanmar girl surfs the internet in Yangon. Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now
As tech spreads, Myanmar women suffer online abuse, ‘revenge porn’
Like many 20-year-olds in Myanmar, Yadana Kyaw Thu* has had a Facebook account for several years to share ...
A group of factory workers in an industrial zone in Yangon's Minglardone Township. Photo:Wai Yan/Myanmar Now
Labour rights reforms and impatient unions a challenge for NLD
Myat Thiri Nwe left her poor village in Ayeyarwady Region three years ago to find work in Myanmar’s commercial capital Yangon ...
Prison officials pass by a group of inmates waiting to be taken to their cells in Yangon's Insein Prison. Photo: Swe Win / Myanmar Now
Government and SkyNet launch TV show on ‘progress in prison reforms’
Myanmar’s Ministry of Home Affairs and commercial television channel SkyNet have cooperated to launch a weekly programme ...
Prisoners are working at Zinkyeit rock quarry run by the prison department in Paung township in Mon State. Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now
Abuses, exploitation rife in Myanmar’s forgotten prison labour camps
Under the glare of the midday sun, several dozen men wearing blue outfits, with shackles around their ankles, stood grouped ...

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