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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Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.
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Myanmar military airstrikes in northern Shan State killed 11 civilians and wounded 11 more, a spokeswoman for an ethnic armed group battling the junta told Agence France-Presse on Friday.
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Many young people have fled Myanmar since February to avoid being conscripted into the military. But in Kachin State's Waingmaw Township young Lisu face a double threat – with ongoing forced recruitment for a local militia.
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With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.
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After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.
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Many Myanmar migrants in Thailand have access to social welfare and health insurance systems. But those working in the palm oil plantations of southern Thailand face high injury risks, with little health or compensation support.
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There are no reliable figures available for how many fighters have been killed or injured on all sides since the military coup in 2021. But while there’s a support system in place for disabled Myanmar army soldiers, what help is available for resistance fighters?
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A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.
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A supposed crackdown on cyber scam operations in Myawaddy Township has only masked their relocation, with the Kayin BGF and DKBA helping Chinese criminal syndicates.
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