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.
BY Frontier
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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Tens of thousands of teachers are risking their lives to make sure that children get an education, despite conflict and displacement. Doh Athan hears from teachers in conflict zones, and operating covertly inside Myanmar.
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Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta.
BY AFP
Frontier reporter Naw Betty Han remembers a friend and fellow exiled Myanmar journalist who died on October 5 in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
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How is your mental health these days? Many Myanmar people are said to be suffering from depression and anxiety, after enduring almost four years of destruction and deprivation. These include journalists, who are also traumatised by having to witness and document these disturbing events.
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Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.
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Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.
BY Frontier
Death, detention and dissolution have decimated Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's political party, easing the way for groups backed by Myanmar's ruling military to claim victory at elections expected next year, analysts say.
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A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah State reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team of medics to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.
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Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war.
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