Chinese development

An announcement lifting restrictions on three Yangon townships has caused widespread confusion, with many instead thinking much of the city was no longer under stay-at-home orders. By ANDREW NACHEMSON and AUNG PHAY KYI SOE | FRONTIER On December 27, the Myanmar government lifted stay-at-home orders in parts of three Yangon townships: Seikgyikanaungto, Twante and Kungyangon. Every other township in mainland Yangon Region remained under stay-at-home orders. It seemed like a simple message to convey.

An advocacy group has proposed four options for reforming Myanmar’s tangle of criminal defamation clauses, which are being used ever more frequently under the National League for Democracy government. By KAUNG HSET NAING and ANDREW NACHEMSON | FRONTIER In April 2019, Ma Su Yadanar Myint took part in a traditional musical theatre performance known as “thangyat” to mark Thingyan.

A wave of disinformation that engulfed social media on November 8 and the days after the election sought to raise doubt about the result and send some sinister messages. By PHONE HTET NAUNG, ALEX BEATSON and ANDREW NACHEMSON On November 8, Myanmar finally got its “Facebook election”. The Myanmar Tech Accountability Network’s monitoring recorded a surge of Facebook activity on election-related content, with the top 2,000 most shared items having a combined total of more than 15 million engagements.