10 Reasons You’re My Hero

10 Reasons You’re My Hero

Thanksgiving is just a few days away and I was thinking about all the reasons I’m thankful for you this year. Our mission is to encourage, equip, and empower your persecuted brothers and sisters in Myanmar. In so many ways, that’s what you do for...

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LFM News Service 11-16-18

Amnesty strips Aung San Suu Kyi of human rights award for ‘shameful betrayal of values’ in Myanmar Amnesty International has announced it is stripping Aung San Suu Kyi of a prestigious human rights award over her “shameful...

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LFM News Service 11-9-18

Provisional results show stumble for NLD in by-elections The ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) is set to lose at least three seats they hitherto held to opposition parties, while ethnic parties in Chin, Rakhine and Shan are expected to...

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LFM News Service 11-07-18

Uniting ethnic Karen armed groups 90 per cent successful Karen State Border Guard Force General Secretary Col. Saw Chit Thu said that they were about 90 per cent successful in their negotiations for reuniting ethnic Karen armed splinter...

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A Trip to the Hospital

A Trip to the Hospital

Early one Monday morning in 2004, our housekeeper’s husband knocked on the door and told us the night before she had suffered a heart attack. She was in the government hospital and could we please help. Their ten-year-old son stood behind him...

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LFM Service 10-26-18

Gov’t Looks East to Revive Flagging Foreign Investment Looking to arrest a two-year decline in foreign investment, the government plans to hold a summit targeting investors from East Asia before the end of the year, a senior economic...

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Money Changers in Myanmar

I wrote this in 2004 when our family lived in Myanmar… Money changers are an indispensable evil in Myanmar. The official bank change rate from Myanmar kyat to American dollars is six-to-one, but with a street money changer it is...

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LFM News Service 10-19-18

First Tourists Arrive on New Free-Visa System, 21 Western Countries to be Added As an initial phase of implementing its new tourism strategy, the tourism ministry launched a free-visa system for tourists from Japan, South Korean and China’s...

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Language Learning in Myanmar

One Friday afternoon, I traveled downtown Yangon to purchase an electronic adapter. Weaving through the throng of sweaty shoppers, sidewalk vendors, and fruit hawkers, I finally locate an electronics shop in the middle of the block. The store...

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LFM News Service 10-12-18

100 captive Christians released, Wa army says The United Wa State Army has released 100 Christians it seized on suspicion of extremism and destabilising its territory but said they had seized more Christians for the same reasons, a spokesman...

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Bridges and Human Sacrifice

Bridges and Human Sacrifice

The following story may seem like an urban legend, but it is not.  It has been verified by reliable sources and represents a window into the superstitious, dark side of life in Myanmar…. Many people in Myanmar believe that a spirit must guard...

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LFM News Service 10-5-18

Exports to the US worth $205.6 million Myanmar’s exports to the United States surpassed imports from April to July of current mini-budget period (April to September), according to the data of the Ministry of Commerce, state media...

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