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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Relatives of those forcibly conscripted by the Myanmar military have little contact with their loved ones, and live in constant fear that they could be sent to fight and die for a cause they don’t believe in.
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If a child is arrested, they should get extra protection under the law. But youths who have spent time in juvenile detention centres in Myanmar since the 2021 coup have told Doh Athan that conditions are as bad as in prisons, if not worse.
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Fighters from the United Wa State Army, Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed group, have moved into a strategic town fought over by the junta and another ethnic armed group for weeks, they and the military said yesterday.
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The Myanmar military has been accused of using chemical weapons for decades, but definitive evidence has remained out of reach, partly due to bureaucratic deadlock and a lack of international support.
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The American radical scholar and author of The Art of Not Being Governed and other seminal books once dodged death threats in Yangon and rode a vintage motorcycle to Mandalay.
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Most Lashio residents have fled fighting between the Myanmar military and ethnic armed groups, who haven’t been welcomed as liberators by those who have had their lives upended by the conflict.
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Documented Myanmar migrants in Thailand should have equal rights under the labour law. But in this week’s episode we hear how pregnant factory workers are often forced to resign.
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The Myanmar military’s conscription law has sparked a mass exodus of young people, further buffeting an already struggling economy and incentivising child labour to fill the gaps.
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Life in Ayeyarwady Region is low risk, high reward for the junta’s corrupt police officers, but they live in fear of being transferred to a conflict zone to replenish the Myanmar military’s dwindling ranks.
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