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A Mosque in Yangon near Sule. Photo: Hong Sar/Mizzima
Will there be any Muslim MPs in Myanmar’s Parliament?
On Nov. 8, Myanmar will go to the polls in what has been billed as the first free and fair parliamentary election in 25 years, ...
A Muslim man walks on a busy street in downtown Yangon. (Photo: Khun Lat, Myanmar Now) 
‘Protecting our race and religion is what we should do’ - Ayeyarwady Region Minister
In the course of investigating a campaign by prominent members of ...
Muslim man walks on a busy street in downtown Yangon. Photo: Khun Lat, Myanmar Now 
Protecting cows - a Buddhist tradition revived?
A campaign by members of the nationalist group Ma Ba Tha to shut down cattle slaughterhouses, which has hit many of these ...
Buddhist monks and nationalists protested in front of the US embassy against its use of word ‘Rohingya’ in Yangon on 28 April 2016. Photo: Thu Ra/Mizzima
Nationalist Buddhists protest at US Embassy against its use of word ‘Rohingya’
Hundreds of Buddhist nationalists staged a protest in front of the United States Embassy in Yangon on Thursday afternoon, ...
Bo Bo Oo, a Lower House MP representing the National League for Democracy party, works in an office in Nay Pyi Taw parliament. (Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now)
From prison cell to the halls of power: an NLD MP’s journey
In one of the many rooms of Myanmar’s massive parliament building in Naypyitaw, the country’s sprawling military-designed capital, ...
Myanmar's newly sworn-in President Htin Kyaw (L) and outgoing President Thein Sein (R) during the official handover ceremony at the presidential palace in Naypyitaw, Myanmar, 30 March 2016. Photo: President's Office
As Thein Sein exits, his reform legacy gains mixed reviews
Shortly after newly elected President Htin Kyaw completed a swearing-in ceremony in Myanmar’s parliament on Wednesday morning, ...
Henry Van Thio. Photo: Min Min/Mizzima
‘This is first time that an ethnic Chin can serve as vice-president’
In a historic parliament session on March 10, the National League for Democracy (NLD) nominated Htin Kyaw, a long time ...
U Htin Kyaw, (left) when Daw Aung San Suu Kyi was released in Yangon on 13 November 2010. Photo: EPA
First civilian president in decades for Myanmar, but not Suu Kyi
Myanmar’s new Lower House nominated four individuals as presidential candidates on Thursday, with Htin Kyaw, ...
Prisoners working at a plantation site in Rezajo prison labor camp in Kalay township in Sagaing Region. Photo: Swe Win/Myanmar Now
Prisoners in Mandalay Region protest for better conditions
Hundreds of prisoners held in a jail in Mandalay Region held a rare protest on Tuesday calling for the replacement of ...
Prison officials pass by a group of inmates waiting to be taken to their cells in Yangon's Insein Prison. Photo: Swe Win / Myanmar Now
Government and SkyNet launch TV show on ‘progress in prison reforms’
Myanmar’s Ministry of Home Affairs and commercial television channel SkyNet have cooperated to launch a weekly programme ...

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