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Having not enough of the Myanmar’s 2015 election fever on Facebook, this newest app is creating a riot within Myanmar’s social circles. CharParty is an app that overlays and puts your chosen party label on your Facebook profile. The naming of the app may be a play on the food Chapati and the political satirisation of the current state of affair on Myanmar’s politics: “Char”*.

No matter what the rose is called, the app is spreading like wild fire online with many people asking for a link of the app, you even have your thought leaders of social sphere sharing it on their walls. Currently the app only allows NLD flag to be used as overlay with three colour accents, while it only allows the 7 other party labels to be tagged on your Facebook profile. The app does require the user to log in to their Facebook account but the creator guaranteed they retain no login details.

Head onto Charparty if you are curious.

*The word “Char” (ချာ) could mean a few things: going around in many cycles (ချာချာလည်), having of poor quality(စုတ်ချာ) or with vagueness of direction (ယောင်ချာချာ).

ဤသတင်းကို မြန်မာဘာသာဖြင့် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ရန် ဤနေရာကိုနှိပ်ပါ။

If you have been following ASEAN startup scene, the latest hotspot seems to be coming from Cyber Jaya, a purpose built tech town south of Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

In effort to bring ASEAN startups together Malaysian government have pumped in millions of dollars in a concerted series of events. Accelerator MaGIC and it’s affiliated award Rice Bowl Startups Award are just some of the highlights of this year.

For this ASEAN wide award, quite a number of startups have been nominated for various categories of awards. Ranging from Woman in Business to Golden Rice Bowl: Startup Business of the year, there is an award for any kind of business. Businesses nominated include a wide variety; from Jewellery, media, medical supplies to plain old “scalable internet startups”.

Out of the Myanmar startups nominated, these were the few that caught our attention: StarTicket, GoBus (two bus ticketing startups from Myanmar), Global New Wave Technologies (app development team), Unique Microfinance (for social enterprise category), and Mizzima Media (a well known media).

Finalists are announced on 15th Oct in a press conference in KL. While we could see one of the finalist from Myanmar making her way to KL for the occasion, we didn’t see a lot of them being able to visit in person. In any case here are the three finalists from Myanmar along with the category of award they are short listed for.

Finalists are announced on 15th Oct in a press conference in KL. While we could see one of the finalist from Myanmar making her way to KL for the occasion, we didn’t see a lot of them being able to visit in person. In any case here are the three finalists from Myanmar along with the category of award they are short listed for.

Star Ticket — Tech Startup of the Year along with Thai and Singaporean startups.

LinkAge Yangon — University Startup of the Year in competition with Malaysian and Indonesian startups

Mizzima Media — Media Startup of the Year competing against two Malaysian startups.

All in all, we would like to congratulate these three teams for making it to Finalist. With the limited startup population in the industry, Myanmar startups did great regardless of the award outcomes which we will see in a few weeks time.