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YANGON: Floating dough balls, locally known as Mont Lone Yay Baw, are traditionally prepared during Myanmar's Thingyan festival as part of long-standing custo ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: In Myanmar, the World’s Indifference to Authoritarianism Is on Full Display
When Myanmar held relatively free and fair elections in 2020, dominated by Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy, many democracies around the world hailed the results. After Myanmar’s armed ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: Where Even Flowers Stoke Fear
Myanmar’s generals have brutalized the country for decades. But they have come to dread garlands as a sign of resistance.
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: Federal Social Democracy: The Right – and Only – Path Forward for Myanmar
History suggests that resistance will not end when the military falls. It will only end when real systemic justice is achieved. The U.N. and Myanmar flags flying side by side outside the Pyidaungsu ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: Coca-Cola, cat food, tampons. The missing goods of military-run Myanmar.
YANGON, Myanmar — Few complaints can be aired openly in Yangon. Myanmar’s military generals administer the city watchfully. Informants lurk in tea shops and on tuk-tuks. Chinese-made surveillance ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: Myanmar army behind Facebook pages spewing hate speech: UN probe
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya were driven into Bangladesh in a crackdown now subject to a UN genocide investigation - Copyright AFP Jim WATSON Hundreds of ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: Ethnic armed groups in Myanmar claim capture of regional military headquarters and gem mining center
BANGKOK (AP) — Ethnic armed groups claimed on Thursday to have captured two strategically important towns in northeastern Myanmar: Lashio, which houses the major regional military headquarters, and ...
News Myanmar » Yangon » Social: UNHCR airlifts relief supplies for earthquake survivors in Myanmar
YANGON – A plane carrying critical relief supplies from the UN Refugee Agency’s global stockpiles in Dubai has landed today in Yangon, Myanmar. The UNHCR-chartered flight, supported by Dubai ...