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Armed with smartphones, Myanmar e-sports players battle power outages
ESports star Myint was on the cusp of victory when the screens went dark in the Yangon cafe where he competes, costing him thousands of dollars in missed prize-money and denting his reputation. Myanmar’s gaming scene is mushrooming, but frequent power cuts are holding players back in the emerging democracy. “Every time a black-out happens, ...
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Facebook makes fresh sweep of bogus accounts, some connected to army
Just two days after eliminating a number of China-based pages and accounts engaging in “coordinated inauthentic behavior” aimed at the Hong Kong protest movement, Facebook is...
Police draw jeers as they defend #JusticeforVictoria record, announce arrest of critic
Myanmar’s police force became the collective punch line for tens of thousands of the country’s Facebook users this week after attempts to defend their efforts to solve the...
Yangon residents take to streets to protest government’s electricity rate hike
Yangon residents have been protesting the first electricity rate hike in five years by the union government with protests yesterday and today. A hundred protestors carrying...
US calls for end to Myanmar mobile internet shutdown
The United States on Saturday called for an end to a mobile internet shutdown in two strife-torn states in Myanmar, saying the cutoff undermines transparency amid clashes between...
UN fears Myanmar human rights abuses in internet shutdown
An internet blackout in parts of Myanmar could be cover for “gross human rights violations” in an area where a brutal army crackdown has already forced hundreds of...
Internet blackout imposed on Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state
An unprecedented shutdown of mobile data across swathes of Myanmar’s restive Rakhine state entered a third day Sunday, blocking villagers from the internet in areas where...
Get ready for more blackouts: YESC
You know those two-hour blackouts we’ve been getting on the reg these days? We’ve got some bad news, Yangonites. The scheduled blackouts won’t only be continuing until June...
A Roboleague of Their Own: Youth-built robots to face off in Yangon on Saturday
Two years ago, a group of Myanmar youth made a name for themselves at the FIRST Global Challenge robotics competition in Washington DC, placing 6th out of 157 competing nations....
Banned: Myanmar military chief Min Aung Hlaing gets the boot from Twitter
General Min Aung Hlaing’s tweeting days are over. The top-ranking general in Myanmar, notorious for insisting that there was no use of “excessive force” in the August 2017...