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Island hopping at Yangon Region's Ta Blu Hla Dam will ease your lockdown blues – but travel at your own risk. (Dominic Horner)
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Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th intallment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores swimming spots.
BY Dominic Horner

 

Medical officials test a man for the COVID-19 at a seafood market in the migrant hub of Samut Sakhon on December 19, two days after the virus was detected in a worker from Myanmar. (AFP)
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Too little, too late: Thailand belatedly tightens border security after outbreak

Informal migration from Myanmar is being blamed for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 that has left Thailand in lockdown and prompted Thai authorities to step up security along the 2,400-kilometre frontier.
BY Lawi Weng

 

Ubiquitous in food shop coolers and on bar taps throughout the country, Myanmar Beer is produced by the military-owned Myanmar Brewery, in partnership with Japanese beer giant Kirin Holdings. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)
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Probe into Japan beer firm’s links to Myanmar rights abuses ‘inconclusive’

After an investigation by Deloitte proved unable to determine if the military-owned company uses its fortunes for military purposes – a conclusion human rights campaigners called 'farcical' – Japan's Kirin to continue partnership with Myanmar Brewery.
BY AFP

 

Members of the Arakan Women Network speak to soldiers outside of a military court in Sittwe, Rakhine State, on December 11, after a rare legal victory for a woman who was brutally raped by Tatmadaw soldiers. (AFP)
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Myanmar gang-rape victim wins legal battle with military

Advocates and activists are weary of calling the case a turning point in the military's long history of dismissing and denying rape claims lodged against it.
BY AFP

 

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