Myanmar Now

A Muslim man walks on a busy street in downtown Yangon. (Photo: Khun Lat, Myanmar Now) 
‘Protecting our race and religion is what we should do’ - Ayeyarwady Region Minister
In the course of investigating a campaign by prominent members of ...
Muslim man walks on a busy street in downtown Yangon. Photo: Khun Lat, Myanmar Now 
Protecting cows - a Buddhist tradition revived?
A campaign by members of the nationalist group Ma Ba Tha to shut down cattle slaughterhouses, which has hit many of these ...
Doi Bu, lower house MP and joint-secretary of Unity and Democracy party (credit - Zaw Naing Oo)
Kachin politician Doi Bu - ‘I will try my best for all nationalities in Kachin State’
Doi Bu is a joint-secretary of the Unity and Democracy Party of ...
Khun Tun Oo, the leader of Shan Nationalities League for Democracy. (Photo: Sai Zaw/ Myanmar Now) 
‘We need genuine competition and respect the public’s choice’- Khun Tun Oo
Khun Tun Oo, 72, is an ethnic Shan politician and leader of SNLD ...
A woman walks past the towering British colonial-era High Court located in downtown Yangon. (Credit: Hkun Lat/Myanmar Now) 
Among Myanmar’s antiquated laws, colonial-era ‘loitering’ charge lands hundreds in jail
In the middle of a hot April night, Arkar and two friends were ...
Floods have caused acute water shortages in hundreds of villages. Photo: Myanmar Now
Floods cause acute water shortages in hundreds of Myanmar villages
Floods have receded in many disaster-hit parts of Myanmar in the past week, while large areas remain inundated. But officials and ...
AA leader Brigadier-General Tun Myat Naing. Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar Now
‘The army insists we give up our weapons, it’s a major obstacle’
The Arakan Army (AA) was formed in 2009 in the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) stronghold of Laiza, on Myanmar’s northern border with ...
Dust rises as rocks are broken into gravel at Yarmanya Company’s quarry in Paung Township, Mon State. (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho / Myanmar Now)
In Mon State, expanding quarries threaten farms
On a recent afternoon in May, the farmers of OhnTitbin Village Tract were tending to their betel nut and rubber plantations ...
Shocked by-standers gather around an abandoned newborn found in Mingalar Taung Nyunt, and a lactating mother immediately breast-feeds the baby, on May 12. (Photo: Thidar Han)
Abandoned babies indicate single mother, sex education problems
During a power blackout on a hot night in May, Thidar Han heard a baby crying at around 9 pm in back lane of Yangon’s ...
New Ma Ba Tha school teaches children to ‘protect race and religion’
Buddhist monks of the nationalist Ma Ba Tha movement have opened a private high school on the outskirts of Yangon this week, ...

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