More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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Though maligned internationally, a government-appointed commission has prompted an unprecedented acknowledgement that the Tatmadaw committed war crimes.
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Kachin’s jade industry is heavily dominated by men, but with the male workforce ground down by drug addiction, more and more women are taking up dangerous work at the mines.
Big players stayed away when the government invited tenders for five emergency power projects last June and the clock is ticking on a consortium racing to meet an April 3 deadline.
Formerly banned by the military, Chin National Day has been proudly celebrated since a bilateral ceasefire was signed in 2012, but efforts to observe it this year in southern Chin State have been thwarted by armed conflict.
Hundreds of students were left disappointed when the National League for Democracy government shut down a multi-million-dollar international scholarship programme set up to great fanfare in 2014.
Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State is a wintering season stop-over for thousands of migratory birds and is enchanting an increasing number of bird lovers.
Exports of animal products have risen dramatically since the government lifted a ban on the export of live cattle and buffalo in October 2017, but new regulations have taken some of the shine off the trade.
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