Swe Win

USDP party supporters at their party campaign in Yangon on 17 October, 2015. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
USDP looks to regroup after bruising election defeat
Stretching back in his chair at his party office in Thaketa Township in eastern Yangon, Nyunt Pe looks at ease, despite losing his seat in ...
Five people arrested for their involvement in printing a calendar attend a hearing at Pazundaung Township Court on 1 December, 2015. Photo: Myanmar Now
Men detained for ‘Rohingya calendar’ make brief court appearance
Five people who were sent to jail for their involvement in printing a calendar that stated that Rohingya Muslims are ...
Street in Yangon. Photo: Dudva
Five men, including publisher, sent to jail for ‘Rohingya Calendar’
Five people have been sent to jail awaiting trial for their involvement in printing a calendar that stated that Rohingya Muslims ...
Kyaw Printing House in Yangon’s Panzundaung Township was raided and sealed off by police for printing a calendar with the word “Rohingya.” (PHOTO: Swe Win / Myanmar Now)
Myanmar court fines 5 men for printing ‘Rohingya calendar’
A Yangon court has used a printing and publishing law to fine five men $800 each for their involvement in printing a calendar that ...
Last September, a group of Buddhist monks walked in front of the office of Union Solidarity and Development Party in the town of Pathein in the Ayeyarwady Delta to join a rally which which was held to celebrate the success of ‘race and religion’ laws. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
Myanmar public dismisses Buddhist nationalism with a ballot
In both Myanmar and abroad, the National League for Democracy’s landslide election win is seen as a victory of the people over ...
Constitutional quirk sends defeated lawmakers back to parliament
Just days after the National League for Democracy clinched a historic election victory, Myanmar lawmakers elected in the flawed ..
Lawmakers in parliament. Photo: Mizzima
Constitutional quirk sends defeated lawmakers back to parliament
Just days after the National League for Democracy clinched a historic election victory, Myanmar lawmakers elected in the flawed ...
A family of Kamans including Than Win, the MP candidate running for a seat in the Rakhine State parliament seen in front of their home in Thandwe. Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now
Myanmar’s Kaman Muslims look to elections to restore their rights
In October two years ago, Zaw Lin ran to the top of a forested hill behind his thatch-roof farm house in this tiny hamlet of Pauktaw in ...
Arakan National Pary (ANP) campaigning in Pauktaw in Rakhine State on 1 November, 2015. Photo: DMG/Mizzima
With Rohingya disenfranchised, NLD takes on nationalists in southern Rakhine
Soe Win, a National League for Democracy (NLD) candidate, ...
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 ...

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