麻豆约拍

A special essay from Leo Johnson in Mandalay reflects on the doubts and dilemmas besetting Myanmar ahead of its landmark elections this November. The military junta might have already earmarked a quarter of the seats for its own officers; still, there is a chance that Aung San Suu Kyi and her party the NLD could make huge gains. But are they prepared for the tasks of lifting the nation out of poverty, or healing its religious and ethnic divisions?

Photo: Female day labourers ride on truck on their way to work on September 21, 2015. (Ye Aung Thu/AFP/Getty Images)