More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
BY Frontier
Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
BY AFP
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Any progress made in land rights and environmental conservation over the past decade is in peril under the rule of a military with a long history of natural resource plunder.
BY Esther Wah
People displaced by war in Kachin State had just returned home and settled back into village life when fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Kachin Independence Organisation broke out in the wake of the coup. Many fear they'll never be able to return home again.
BY Frontier
Military jets hit targets in eastern Kayin State over the weekend, as Myanmar reeled from the deadliest day so far in the junta's crackdown on anti-coup protests.
BY AFP
Selangor FC II player Hein Htet Aung was given a one-match ban for flashing a three-finger salute during a game earlier this month.
BY AFP
Soldiers and police are terrorising a majority-Muslim ward in Dawbon Township and there are indications that they may be singling it out because of the faith of its residents.
BY Frontier
The US, Britain and the EU have all imposed sanctions in response to the crackdown, but so far diplomatic pressure has not persuaded the generals to ease off. The UN Security Council is set to meet for emergency talks on Wednesday.
BY AFP
A boycott of the state lottery launched after the February 1 coup has been so effective that the draw has twice been postponed, but it has also left distributors and retailers with millions of unsold tickets.
BY Frontier
With Myanmar's legal economy tanking following weeks of nationwide unrest and strike action against the military's government takeover, the United Nations warns of a coming deluge of illicit, cross-border trade.
BY AFP
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