Amid the collapse of both the economy and the rule of law in Myanmar, moneylenders are setting extortionate interest rates for desperate borrowers and hiring thugs to collect their dues.
BY Frontier
In a cruel chain reaction, some Moken youth have ended up working for the fishing fleets that are destroying the ecosystem that supported them over generations.
For one young woman, a train ride in Mon State in 2004 was the beginning of 13 years of misery as a human trafficking victim who was sold twice to lonely men in China.
After a thrashing at the hands of Vitaly Bigdash in January, Myanmar’s MMA hero has a shot at redemption in what may be his last chance to become middleweight champion.
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