Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
12 March 2016
Although reforms made by the outgoing Union Solidarity and Development Party improved...
U Htin Kyaw, (left) when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released in Yangon on 13 November 2010. Photo: EPA
10 March 2016
Myanmar’s new Lower House nominated four individuals as presidential candidates on...
Staff at work in the dispensary of one of the MSF clinics providing medical care and treatment for patients with HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis or sexually transmitted diseases in Yangon. Photo: P.K. Lee/MSF
07 March 2016
When her father died of AIDS in 2003, Pyae Phu Khaing* was just three years old, and only...
A Kachin farmer in Wai Maw township in Kachin State kneeling down on a plot of land confiscated from him by a company. (Photo: Thin Lei Win/Myanmar Now) 
23 February 2016
La Laung Daung Nan vividly remembers the last day of April 2015.
Poor slums are springing up in the suburbs of Yangon. (Photo: Connor Macdonald/Myanmar Now)
22 February 2016
Sitting in a tea-shop next door to the National League for Democracy’s Hlaing Tharyar...
A typical hostel in downtown Yangon. Photo: Myanmar Now
20 February 2016
Myanmar’s cities are attracting an increasing number of rural poor, but efforts to...
Thai soldiers secure the area next to shelters after discovering another abandoned jungle camp believed used by the human traffickers to detain Rohingya migrants at a mountain in Sadao, Thai-Malaysian border district, Songkhla province, southern Thailand, 12 May 2015. Photo: EPA
19 February 2016
After Husaina’s 20-year-old son fled poverty and discrimination in Myanmar’s Rakhine...
Tamils celebrate Thaipusam in Yangon. Photo: Katri Heinamaki
13 February 2016
Folk history holds that the names Burma and Myanmar come from the name of the deity...
May Sabe Phyu, a women rights activist of the Gender Equality Network. Photo: Mizzima
12 February 2016
Last year, a cleaner hired by Phu Pwint’s family raped the 11-year-old girl when she was...
Union Peace Conference held at the Myanmar International Convention Centre (MICC-2) in Nay Pyi Taw from the 12-16 January, 2016. Photo: Thet Ko/Mizzima
12 February 2016
For an event where only 7 percent of the 700 attendees were women, Myanmar’s first peace...
Sand-mining at Ngapali beach. Photo: Mizzima
06 February 2016
Booming construction fuels sand mining, and threatens coastal environment and tourism,...
A General Administration Department office in Kyauktada township in downtown Yangon.  (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho/Myanmar Now)
01 February 2016
Despite its strong mandate from a thumping election victory, Myanmar’s new National...

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