Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago. Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her party are …
‘This Is Not Democracy’: Myanmar Prepares for a Troubled Election
The vote on Sunday will render a verdict not only on the country’s fragile constitutional settlement but also on its civilian leader, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
Facebook Shuts Dozens of Myanmar Pages Over ‘Inauthentic Behaviour’
In its monthly report, Facebook said it had taken down a network of 36 accounts and six pages run by a Myanmar public relations agency, Openmind, because it said they were using fictitious people to …
Suu Kyi’s Party Expected to Win Second Term in Myanmar Polls
Myanmar’s citizens go to the polls Sunday in an effort to sustain the fledgling democracy they helped install just five years ago.
‘We don’t matter’: Rohingya deprived of vote in Myanmar elections
Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims, who have taken shelter in Bangladesh, lament their exclusion from the polls.
‘Spreading like wildfire’: Facebook fights hate speech before Myanmar poll
One of two Muslims allowed to run for the ruling party in Buddhist-majority Myanmar’s general election on Sunday, Sithu Maung, worries fake news on Facebook could damage his chances.
Why Myanmar’s election is unlikely to herald major political reform or support transition to democracy
The constitutional change needed to further democratise Myanmar is impossible without the military’s consent, so achieving major political transformation through the election alone seems unlikely.
Melvyn Pun explains why he left a career at Goldman Sachs to head a family-owned investment business in Myanmar
Yoma Strategic recently took a controlling stake in mobile-based financial services provider Wave Maker, now also backed by Ant Financial …
Suu Kyi Set to Win Again Even as Myanmar’s Economic Dream Fades
When Myanmar began its transition to democracy from military rule in 2010, it came with grand aspirations to restore its long lost status as a vital player in the Asian economy. A decade later, with …
A crushed student movement and shrinking hope ahead of Myanmar’s election
Myanmar teacher Hnin grew up idolizing Aung San Suu Kyi, the one-time democracy icon who now leads her country. But when voters go to the polls on Sunday for the second general election since the end …