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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 child rape case at the center of the #JusticeforVictoria movement were met with derision. In a post on Wednesday night, the Myanmar Police Force fired back at ...
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...
Unscheduled outages after ’emergency shutdowns’ on offshore gas field
Carefully scheduled power outages were supposed to spread the pain and make it manageable for Yangonites, but anyone in sections of the city who suffered through most of today...
Move aside, Zawgyi, Unicode is in town: ministry
Zawgyi, the most popular Burmese-language font on every social media platform, is lovely looking (really!). It’s also a massive problem if you’re trying to search for articles...