Agence France Presse: Myanmar’s cyber generation boots up for first-time vote

1 September 2010, 1:41 pm

Yangon – One of Myanmar’s self-described “pioneer bloggers” proudly opens his popular website — officially banned by the military rulers — and scrolls to his updates on the approaching election.Tin San has been carefully researching the candidates running in Myanmar’s first polls in two decades, and for his next post he is busy reading up [...]... Read More »

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