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.
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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Culture and a lack of resources may be masking the true scale of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BY Frontier
The Young Men’s Buddhist Association promised to end its involvement in politics, but there are signs it might be changing its mind.
BY Hein Thar
For years, residents of a conflict-blighted area of Shan State had ‘kept their anger inside’, but after the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 villagers marched in protest.
It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.
BY Frontier
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
BY Luke Corbin
Thirty solar projects received more than 150 bids, many from Chinese companies.
BY Thomas Kean
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Public exchanges between the US and Chinese embassies in Yangon have echoes from the Cold War that test Myanmar’s neutralist stance.
Millions of the nation’s most vulnerable families are receiving cash handouts totalling K40,000 to alleviate the impact of COVID-19, but some appear to be falling through the cracks.
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