Myanmar must not allow the case of a journalist killed in 2014 while in military custody to sink into impunity, the International Press Institute (IPI) said today after police dropped their investigation into the incident. Aung Kyaw Naing, better known as Ko Par Gyi, was shot in October 2014 while under military arrest near Kyaikmayaw, […]

The date November 8, 2015 may go down as a historic turning point for democracy in Myanmar. On that day, formerly jailed opposition leader and Nobel Peace Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi and her National League for Democracy (NLD) party won 390 seats in the country’s combined Parliament, enough for an absolute majority despite […]

Myanmar is currently readying itself for upcoming elections set to take place on Nov. 8, with 30 million voters expected to take part; an election broadly seen as the most crucial step, among other positive developments, in the country’s transition toward democracy.

This November, Myanmar will hold its first democratic general election since the end of nearly 50 years of military rule, but events of this past month raise questions about whether the press will be free enough to cover it fairly and informatively. At IPI’s 2015 World Congress in Yangon in March, Information Minister Ye Htut […]