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People walking in a street in Mawlamyine city, Mon State, Myanmar. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/Mizzima
As polls near, attacks in Mon State capital raise fears of communal violence
Several unexplained night-time attacks on members of different ...
Vimala Buddhi at his monastery in Mawlamyine, Mon State, on Oct. 13. (PHOTO:- Myanmar Now/Phyo Thiha Cho)
Myanmar’s Suu Kyi not ready to govern, says radical Buddhist monk
The low monotone of maroon-robed monks reciting Buddhist scriptures mingles with the sound of birdsong at Myazedi monastery, ...
 Toe Toe Aung, Mon State Minister for Civil Development at the USDP office in Mawlamyaing, Mon State. (PHOTO : Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now) 
“Joining a Ma Ba Tha event is a USDP member’s right and choice”
Dr. Toe Toe Aung is the Mon State Minister for Civil Development for the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP).
Phyu Phyu Nyunt, NUP candidate for the Yangon Region Parliament. (PHOTO:- Ei Cherry Aung/Myanmar Now) 
“Some people are surprised our party has survived”
Phyu Phyu Nyunt is a Yangon Region parliament candidate for the National Unity Party (NUP) in Mingalar Taung Nyunt ...
Myanmar armed forces march during a military parade to mark the country's 67th Union Day ceremony in Sittwe, Rakhine State, western Myanmar, 12 February 2014. Photo: EPA
Can soldiers vote in Myanmar elections without fear?
At the end of a day’s training in a vast military compound in the suburbs of Yangon, Corporal Khin Maung Than and three of ...
Nay Zin Latt, former presidential advisor and founder of NDP, speaks at a rally on Oct. 12 in the Mon State capital Mawlamyine, where he pledged to protect Myanmar's race and Buddhist religion. (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
Myanmar’s new nationalist party surges into election race
With just weeks before Myanmar’s landmark elections, a fleet of cars covered with stickers of the National Development Party ...
Khun Myint Tun, chairman of the Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization, speaking at Myanmar Now office on Oct. 20. (PHOTO:- Myanmar Now)
Ceasefire player
Khun Myint Tun, chairman of the Pa-Oh National Liberation Organization which signed the recent Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement was a former youth...
Mi Kon Chan speaking to the public in Paung Township in Mon State. (Photo: Myanmar Now)
Amending the constitution? We’ll try our best
Mi Kon Chan comes from a distinguished family in Mon state in eastern Myanmar. Her father is the vice -chairman of the Mon National Party, ....
Migrant workers operate on a fishing boat in Mae Klong district, Samut Songkhram province, Thailand, 07 May 2015. Photo:Narong Sangnak/EPA
Voices of Myanmar migrant workers in Thailand
It is estimated that 2.5 to 3 million Myanmar workers are toiling away in Thailand, at least half a million of whom are in ...
Myanmar expats wait in line to cast their vote outside the Myanmar Embassy building in Singapore, 15 October 2015. Photo: Wallace Woon/EPA
Of millions of Myanmar migrants in Thailand, just a fraction set to vote
The details of that morning 25 years ago are hazy but Than Than Aye remembers vividly the palpable excitement as ...

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