2026-01-07
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Five years after military coup, Myanmar is holding an election.
The neighbour laureate whose party won landslide victories in previous polls.
Our sensitivity is, you know, reputation is still very high.
People, even, you know, very old people will refer to her as a maesup,
which is in Burmese's mother,
because they look up to her as someone who can stand up to the military.
Well, neither she nor her party is contesting this time because she's detained.
The country is also locked in a civil war which has killed thousands and pushed many Burmese to leave the country.
Later in the episode,
we'll hear from one Burmese national living in Singapore why there's been a mass exodus.
So a lot of them, even if they have their degrees and they have proper education,
they come here to become domestic workers or work in retail
because what they earn here is way more than what they can earn back home to support their families.
Voting for the election is taking place in three stages,
but it isn't happening at all in the parts of the country that the military government doesn't control.