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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 ..
Members of National League for Democracy (NLD) party steer horse-drawn coaches during an election campaign rally in the town of Pyin Oo Lwin, Mandalay region, Myanmar, 24 October 2015. Photo: Hein Htet/EPA
In “army town” Pyin Oo Lwin, NLD hopes for victory
Voting was brisk in the hotly-contested constituency of PyinOoLwin in Mandalay Region on Sunday, ...
Thein Nyunt campaigning recently in Yangon. (PHOTO:- Myanmar Now/Htet Khaung Lin) 
“I have sensed the danger of an ‘elected dictatorship”
Thein Nyunt, chairman of the New National Democracy Party, is a well-known MP in the Lower House of parliament.
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 ...
Dr Aye Maung Photo: Myanmar Now
Arakan National Party chairman confident a strong win will bring security for Buddhist Rakhines
Aye Maung is the chairman of the Arakan National Party (ANP), ...
A woman on a balcony in an apartment block in Thinganggyun Township, Yangon, with USDP campaign material bearing the president's image, on Nov. 3. (PHOTO: Myanmar Now/Phyo Thiha Cho) 
Ruling USDP commands shy support in Myanmar’s elections
Twenty-two-year-old Lu Zaw took a day’s leave from his office job this week to join a political rally of the Union Solidarity and ...
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, ...
In Myanmar, not all votes are created equal
When millions of Myanmar citizens go to the polls on Nov. 8, many will be hoping their votes can help make the country a freer and ...

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