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
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.
BY AFP
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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Paleontologists have discovered what they believe is the world’s oldest animal sperm, frozen inside a blob of tree resin in Myanmar 100 million years ago.
BY AFP
China has locked down a city on the border with Myanmar after a handful of infections were detected there.
BY AFP
Fruit farmers in Mon State are facing a financial crisis. With an unprecedented drop in prices and movement restrictions due to COVID-19, fruit is rotting before it can be sold.
BY Wonsa Mon
As COVID-19 cases rise rapidly the government has cut the facility quarantine period by a week to free up space and save money, as new research shows most patients are no longer infectious after two weeks.
BY Frontier
Hundreds of Rohingya paid traffickers for a one-week trip from Bangladesh to Malaysia to escape squalid refugee camps. Instead, they suffered more than 200 days of terror on the high seas.
BY AFP
Doh Athan takes an emotional visit to the village of Wekha in Kachin State to witness the aftermath of a jade mine collapse that killed at least 172 people.
An American immigration lawyer writes about the challenges faced by asylum seekers and refugees from Myanmar in Battle Creek, Michigan.
For Muslim communities in rural Mandalay Region, the right to vote is at the mercy of exclusionary laws and a bureaucracy steeped in discrimination.
The new air suspension train between Yangon and Mawlamyine is leagues above Myanmar’s outdated status quo.
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