A sharp increase in household plastic waste amid COVID-19 has exacerbated the threat posed by Yangon’s near-capacity landfills and poor waste management systems.
BY Hein Thar
As Myanmar prepares to hold local elections, a new report has highlighted the extreme gender imbalance at the grassroots level of government.
The opening of the country’s first schools of journalism last year is helping to raise professional standards in the nation’s newsrooms.
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