The March 28 earthquake rattled Myanmar’s fledgling insurance industry, with companies that offered quake coverage now obligated to pay out massive amounts of compensation in.
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The March 28 earthquake rattled Myanmar’s fledgling insurance industry, with companies that offered quake coverage now obligated to pay out massive amounts of compensation in.
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Mastering control of the rising and falling rattan chinlone ball teaches patience, says a veteran of the traditional Myanmar sport – a quality dearly needed in the long-suffering nation.
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The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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Peaceful strategies are proving the most effective at challenging military rule and the new National Unity Government should prioritise them over armed struggle.
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The National Unity Government has welcomed a call by Southeast Asian leaders for an end to "military violence" after crisis talks in Jakarta with junta leader Min Aung Hlaing.
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Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing arrived in the Indonesian capital today for crisis talks with Southeast Asian leaders, in his first foreign trip since the February 1 coup.
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The image of Myanmar’s police has sunk to new lows due to brutal crackdowns on protesters, but some insiders have blamed much of the violence on soldiers and paramilitary thugs masquerading as police.
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In this video, subtitled in English, Doh Athan profiles a midwife in Yangon’s Hlaing Tharyar township, where the junta has declared martial law and imposed.
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With bullets, beatings and arrests, the junta is trying to scare volunteer rescue workers from treating its victims, and are breaking international humanitarian law to do it, charity groups say.
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Ruthless crackdowns, including mass arrests, have largely quelled protests in Myanmar’s capital, but the regime has struggled to crush the spirit of the Civil Disobedience Movement despite prosecuting leading members.
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Japan urged military authorities on Monday to free from Insein Prison a Japanese journalist accused of spreading “fake news”.
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