Guest contributor Maung Zarni For my fellow democrats from Myanmar, wherever they are, I have bad news. It is this: the United States (that is, the U.S. government) is not our friend…

Guest contributor Maung Zarni For my fellow democrats from Myanmar, wherever they are, I have bad news. It is this: the United States (that is, the U.S. government) is not our friend…
DVB SHORTS On March 29, the military regime’s electoral commission dissolved Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD) party. The NLD was founded in 1988 in response to…
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Mauk Kham Wah’s World Press Photo 2023 winner “Retrieving the dead” Photographer wins World Press Photo 2023 regional award Mauk Kham Wah was announced a World…
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM Japan protest against Taro Aso and Hideo Watanabe Burmese and Japanese held a protest in front of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) office in Tokyo on…
The National League for Democracy (NLD) and 39 other political parties in Burma have been dissolved by the Union Election Commission (UEC) under the recently-amended Political Parties Registration Law. Major…
FROM THE DVB NEWSROOM The NLD won a landslide victory in the 2020 election but the results were annulled by the military following its 2021 coup (credit: Nyein Su) The…