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In Mon State, expanding quarries threaten farms
Phyo Thiha ChoMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesDust rises as rocks are broken into gravel at Yarmanya Company’s quarry in Paung Township, Mon State. (Photo: Phyo Thiha Cho / Myanmar Now)On a recent...
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Isolated and lacking labor rights, housemaids toil in silence
Ei Cherry AungCategory: NewsFeaturesThis photo of an eight-year-old housemaid in Yangon’s Bahan Township being tortured by her employers went viral on Facebook in 2015.Khin Htar Kyu was in her late...
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In western Myanmar, a town ravaged by the drugs trade
Phyo Thiha ChoSwe WinMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesPolice raid the house of Maung Maung Oo in Western Khone Thar Village near Kalay, Sagaing Region, on June 26. He was arrested earlier for drug...
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Campaigners fight against the Myitsone dam
Theingi HtunHtet HtetCategory: NewsFeaturesAyeyarwady Myitsone, near Myitsone dam project in Myitkyina, Kachin State, Myanmar on 6 March, 2016. Photo: Theingi Tun/MizzimaJust a few months before 2012...
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Ma Ba Tha monks a ‘divisive’ minority, other clergymen say
Htet Khaung LinnMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesMembers of the State Sangha Maha Nayaka Committee (State Buddhist Authority) leave a conference room after the committee members meeting in Yangon,...
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After harsh censorship, Myanmar’s booksellers face new challenges
Yitsing WangCategory: NewsFeatures37th Street, a narrow street in Kyauktada township downtown Yangon, has experienced tremendous cultural and social changes over the last 5 years.With colourful walls...
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Amid war, Kachin rebels expand education system for IDPs
Htet Khaung LinnMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesKachin refugee children attend class at the Je Yang Camp in Laiza, Kachin State, 31 October 2013. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPAIt’s nearly dinner time at...
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Abused at home, Myanmar women failed by law and traditions
Ei Cherry AungMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesMyanmar women carry baskets loaded with fruit to sell. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPALast month, Phyu Phyu made a life-changing decision that few women in Myanmar...
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Rangers face violent loggers to save Bago’s shrinking forests
Htet Khaung LinnMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesPhoto: Myanmar NowSeveral forest rangers and policemen were manning a sleepy checkpoint on a dirt road near MyoKaung Village, in the foothills of the...
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Govt crackdown prompts calls for reform as drug addicts suffer
Phyo Thiha ChoMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesA man smokes a typical Myanmar cheroot with added marijuana and tobacco leaves in a house on the outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPASeveral...
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Abuses, exploitation rife in Myanmar’s forgotten prison labour camps
Swe WinMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesPrisoners are working at Zinkyeit rock quarry run by the prison department in Paung township in Mon State. Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar NowUnder the glare of the...
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21st Century Panglong Peace Conference ends first day on positive note
Raymond PagnuccoCategory: NewsFeaturesThe opening session of the Union Peace Conference - 21st Century Panglong in Naypyitaw on 31 August 2016. Photo: Nay Thar/MizzimaThe 21st Century Panglong...
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Xi-Obama talks concentrate on complex global, economic issues
Global TimesCategory: NewsInternationalFeaturesUS President Barack Obama (L) meets with Chinese President Xi Jinping (not in picture) at the West Lake State Guest House in Hangzhou on September 3, 2016...
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Women garment workers find support through Thone Pan Hla
Connor MacdonaldCategory: NewsFeaturesAlmost two years ago, Khin Myat Noe Swe had to make a tough decision. Faced with dwindling work opportunities in her village of Shwathit, Magwe division, she could...
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Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘What We Want Is a Truly Democratic Country’
Matt SchiavenzaCategory: NewsFeaturesMyanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi delivers an address at Asia Society in New York on her country's political and economic development on September 21, 2016. Photo:...
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As tech spreads, Myanmar women suffer online abuse, ‘revenge porn’
Ei Cherry AungMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesA Myanmar girl surfs the internet in Yangon. Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar NowLike many 20-year-olds in Myanmar, Yadana Kyaw Thu* has had a Facebook...
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On society’s fringes, disabled Myanmar veterans languish in poverty
Htet Khaung LinnMyanmar NowCategory: NewsFeaturesKyaw Win are seen in an army-built community called Thudhammawaddy Ward, in Mon State. Photo: Htet Khaung Linn/Myanmar NowBy 1999 Sein Kyaw Win had...
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It's a dog’s life: Yangon neuters city’s many strays
AFPCategory: NewsFeaturesStray dogs take a rest inside a shelter for stray dogs in Shwe Pyauk village, outskirts of Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPAThe dart hits a fleeing street dog in the thigh,...
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Yangon city expansion raises a quake challenge
Andrew LandenCategory: NewsFeaturesPhoto: Hong Sar/MizzimaYangon’s population looks set to almost double within the next thirty years. But as property developers rub their hands in anticipation, it is...
View Article‘Still making amends’: haunted life for Myanmar’s child soldiers
AFPCategory: NewsFeaturesDarkness was falling across the pagoda outside Yangon when a military officer walked up to Su Thet Htoo and gave him two choices: go to jail or join the untold ranks of child...
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