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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A youth organisation in Sagaing Region is helping to rescue poor villagers lured to China by human traffickers who promise dream jobs that never materialise.
BY Ei Ei Mon
As the market for consumer remittances reaches saturation, mobile money operators are looking to smartphone apps to continue their growth.
Rohingya children caught travelling outside of Rakhine State without identity documents are being detained in vocational schools and rehabilitation centres in Yangon, where they rarely receive family visits.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
Ko Shafique walked across Myanmar for 18 days, hiding in the jungle during the day to avoid detection.
BY Frontier
The suspension of mobile internet in parts of Rakhine State has not stopped local reporting on the conflict, but the toll taken on the welfare of ordinary people is considerable.
မိုးလေဝသပညာရှင် ဒေါက်တာ ဦးထွန်းလွင်၏ ဈာပနခရီးအား ၎င်းကိုချစ်သူများက ယနေ့ညနေ ၄နာရီ တွင် လိုက်ပါပို့ဆောင်ခဲ့ကြသည်။
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An online discourse filled with falsehoods and bigotry is a symptom, not a cause, of Myanmar's toxic politics.
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