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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Some refugees returning home to Tanintharyi Region from Thailand have discovered that their ancestral lands have been given to private companies, and they are facing charges for trying to use it.
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BY Frontier
This week’s Panglong peace conference – the last before the election – is likely to see agreements on a wide range of issues, but negotiators and analysts warn that much of the language is vague and could create to difficulties in the future.
BY Frontier
The Tatmadaw’s continued use of children in non-combat roles is holding the country back and it needs to take stronger action.
BY Frontier
The banning of Myanmar's largest election monitoring group will have a "huge impact" on the transparency of November's national polls, the organisation's director said Friday.
BY AFP
Global experience shows that coalition governments are far from unusual in presidential systems, particularly where the president lacks a strong veto.
BY Frontier
A journalist has brought charges against employees of a private company she alleges detained and hit her.
BY Esther
Residents of Old Aleman village on Aleman Island in Tanintharyi Region have recently learned that all the land on their island has been taken over by the government.
BY Min Khant
A Rohingya Muslim has been barred from standing in Myanmar's upcoming election, in a decision decried by rights groups as discriminatory.
BY AFP
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