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After spending 15 years under house-arrest, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, now 70, and her party the National League for Democracy, have won more than 75 percent of the seats in parliament. "It's not finished yet", she was quoted as saying in a recent interview, making it clear that this was not the end, but the beginning.

The ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party (USDP) has started rolling out strategies for their campaign in the coming Myanmar elections on 8 November. The opposition National League for Democracy (NLD) confirmed that it will contest even if a constitutional measure barring Aung San Suu Kyi from running for president is not amended. In this blogpost, we highlight some videos on the ongoing political struggle.

Despite being formerly banned and operating in exile, Democratic Voice of Burma (DVB) have captured some of Myanmar’s most historical moments on camera. The media organisation got international attention after the award-winning film, 'Burma VJ', which shows the work of their secret video reporters during the Saffron Revolution.

Camp Chindwin participants showcase their talent and creativity during the Short Film Lab activity. The resulting videos are a mix of hilarious and serious videos that give a glimpse of the environment and feel of the camp.

What is the state of freedom of the press in Myanmar, which is currently the 9th most censored country in the world? This and other questions are addressed by Irrawaddy Media, an independent media organisation covering Myanmar and Southeast Asia from a Myanmar perspective.

၂၀၁၅ ခုနွစ္အတြင္း မွာ EngageMedia ရဲ့ အယ္ဒီတာအဖြဲ႔ဟာ  ျမန္မာလူမႈေျပာင္းလဲျခင္းဆိုင္ရာ ဇာတ္လမ္းဗီဒီယိုမ်ားကို စုစည္းျခင္း၊ ဘာသာျပန္ျခင္း၊ ျဖန္႔ေ၀ျခင္း မ်ားျပဳလုပ္ခဲ့ပါတယ္။

As part of EngageMedia's outreach work in Myanmar, our editorial team been working throughout 2015 to collate, translate and distribute critical videos from the country.

It's 8pm in Yangon, and the roads are still packed with people rushing home. In a comfy room in the Pazudaung Township area, at the office of Equality Myanmar, EngageMedia staff were preparing to screen the Papuan Voices II collection to a Burmese audience for the first time.

In Myanmar’s media landscape, most would observe that the reports by independent media there are focused on human rights issues. And in that regard, Kamayut Media, the country’s first private online TV organisation, delivers up-to-date.