Category : Myanmar

Rejecting the claims of mass fraud and voting irregularities used by the Myanmar military to justify its coup, an international monitoring group said in its final report on the results of last year’s polls that the vote reflected the true will of the electorate. The November 2020 general election brought another landslide victory for the […]Read More

Following the coup, Myanmar’s economy is facing significant risks of a collapse and the level of impoverishment has not been seen in the country since 2005, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) recently revealed in a report. Over the past 10 years, Myanmar’s average economic growth has exceeded 6 percent. However, the World Bank has […]Read More

It would not be overstating the case to say that press freedom has been completely extinguished in Myanmar, with almost all independent journalists forced to work undercover, their newsrooms closed, living with the daily threat of raids, arrest, violence and lawsuits. Since the military takeover, the regime has targeted journalists in an effort to suppress […]Read More

Before last year’s November election, the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank predicted that Myanmar would bounce back strongly from the economic impact of the global COVID-19 pandemic, with the economy set to grow at around 6 per cent in 2021. In the immediate aftermath of the military’s February 1 coup, junta leaders sought […]Read More