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Election 2020
This week the Arakan Army admitted abducting three ruling party candidates, unsealed advance ballots from the military were rejected, and ethnic parties asked that cancellation areas
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Burma
Fighting between the Arakan Army and Myanmar’s military is driving thousands of civilians from their homes across Rakhine State.
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Election 2020
This week three ruling party candidates were abducted by armed men in Rakhine state, a pro-USDP mob attacked NLD supporters and the election commission is investigating the Rose Pa
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Election 2020
To avoid migrants from Myanmar missing out on the November general election, the embassies in Seoul and Kuala Lumpur have kept their polling stations open for extra days.
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On This Day
On this day 100 years ago, director U Ohn Maung’s ‘Love and Liquor’, Myanmar’s first feature film, premiered; Oct. 13 is now known as Myanmar Motion Picture Day.
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Election 2020
A survey by Myanmar’s leading poll monitor found that the level of public trust in Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has risen to 79 percent from 70 percent last year.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Kanbawza Bank and its affiliated companies are playing a key role in Myanmar’s fight against COVID-19, spending nearly $6 million so far to build hospitals and provide key supplies
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Election 2020
This week, overseas voting kicked off, final voter lists went on display and the controversial head of the ‘Rose Party’ was arrested on a fugitive warrant.
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Election 2020
The Irrawaddy profiles candidates from four different parties who are competing with each other in the November general election.
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Guest Column
Will politicians help the public imagine new post-election democratic possibilities in the wake of violence and COVID-19?
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Election 2020
This week, the UEC refused to delay the election, the ‘Rose Party’ came into the spotlight, and an early date for migrants voting overseas was set.
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Burma
Nearly 3,000 villagers have fled their homes after naval shelling and the threat of military raids in response to alleged action by the Arakan Army.
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Commentary
For most voters in Myanmar, election day is a chance not only to vote for their chosen candidates, but to express their rejection of the authoritarian rule of the past.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
President’s Office spokesman U Zaw Htay says all dine-in services will be banned across the nation as transmissions have been linked to restaurants.
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Election 2020
The Democratic Party for a New Society has refused to broadcast its election campaign video after references to the rights of children and citizens were censored.
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