After seven years of construction delays, a pandemic, and a military coup, the $188 million Yangon-Dala Bridge finally opened on Feb. 6.

Known officially as the Myanmar-Korea Friendship Bridge, the country's longest cable-stayed bridge connects the commercial capital Yangon to one of the region's poorest townships.

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Myanmar’s rivers are at risk of damming and mining activities, which has caused contamination and a threat to the livelihoods of riverine communities.

Environmental activist Paul Sein Twa is the co-founder of the Karen Environmental Social Action Network (KESAN).

He joins us in the DVB Newsroom to explain the work being done to protect Myanmar's rivers.

Read our story and check out our photos from International Day of Action for Rivers in Karen State on March 14.

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Independent election analyst Htin Kyaw Aye joins us in the DVB Newsroom to explain the results of Myanmar’s military-run elections, held from Dec. 28 to Jan. 25.

As expected, the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) won a landslide victory and will lead the next administration in the capital Naypyidaw with no opposition parties in Myanmar's parliament.

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A new law may enable Senior General Min Aung Hlaing to retain full control over the Myanmar military while becoming president - five years after he led a military coup ousting Aung San Suu Kyi's National League for Democracy (NLD) government.

The 2008 Constitution outlines two separate roles for president and commander-in-chief of the armed forces. It was even written by the military to ensure it keeps control over the levers of power in government.

But this didn't stop Min Aung Hlaing from overthrowing the NLD administration, which governed during Myanmar's touted "transition to democracy" from 2016-2021, and appointing himself to every leadership role in the military regime.

He is now widely expected to be appointed Myanmar's president after military-run elections, called a "sham" by the U.N. and several countries, were completed on Jan. 25 with the military-proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) to become the next administration in Naypyidaw.

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Youth Line podcast host Pyartho brings us a story from Myanmar about a mother, wife, and assistant lecturer, who joined the Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) in response to the military coup on Feb. 1, 2021.

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Legal proceedings have been filed with a judiciary in Timor-Leste against Myanmar’s military under the principle of universal jurisdiction.

Chin Human Rights Organization Executive Director Salai Za Uk Ling joins us in the Newsroom to explain the "irrefutable evidence" of war crimes and crimes against humanity that his team has collected after attacks carried out by the Myanmar military in Chin State.

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During the Myanmar military coup on Feb. 1, 2021, a non-violent resistance movement was born. The Civil Disobedience Movement (CDM) has been resisting the return to military rule in Myanmar over the last five years.

Understand the story of the CDM and its members, who've sacrificed their lives, careers and families to pressure the military to return power to the people of Myanmar.

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A US federal judge paused the termination of Temporary Protected Status (TPS) for nearly 4,000 people from Myanmar who couldn’t return home after the 2021 military coup.

TPS is a humanitarian program that allows foreign nationals from designated countries experiencing armed conflict, natural disasters, or other extraordinary crises to remain and work legally in the US.

Simon Billeness is the executive director at Campaign for a New Myanmar. He joined us in the DVB Newsroom on Jan. 27.

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The military’s Union Election Commission has released results confirming the Union Solidarity and Development Party won its elections. As expected, the military proxy USDP dominated all three phases of voting, which began on Dec. 28 and ended on Jan. 25. With the military’s allotted 25 per cent of all seats, this keeps the legislature under tight regime control.

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Why a doctor joined Myanmar’s Civil Disobedience Movement after the 2021 military coup. Linn Nizho, a doctor who works on the frontline in Karenni State, joined us in the DVB Newsroom to share her story.

Mudra is an OG-GYN clinic at Luke Hospital in Karenni State.

*IEC stands for the Karenni State Interim Executive Council, a provisional government established by the resistance in 2023.

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