Politics
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Leaders find new tool to silence critics after telecom law amendment
Changes to defamation law sentencing guidelines have MPs, politicians and military officials turning to a misplaced clause in privacy law, rights groups say
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Parliament set to condemn detention of MP as military rejects AA’s prisoner swap offer
Lawmakers will discuss proposal accusing AA of harming national reconciliation and demanding colleague’s release
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Founder of Human Dignity Film Institute hit with military defamation lawsuit
Complaint comes after Min Htin Ko Ko Gyi criticised the military’s role in politics on Facebook
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Parliament scraps Shwe Mann’s commission after he forms new party
Former USDP chair is unfazed by decision and says politics is ‘full of twists’
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‘The Tatmadaw is the mother and the father!’ – inside the militarised schools training Myanmar’s civil servants
Students are taught a ‘strict sense of obedience’ and must clap exactly 20 times at the end of each class.
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