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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Child workers are filling some of the labour gaps in Yangon factories left by people who fled to avoid conscription. That’s according to labour activists, who also say the children are treated worse than adult workers.
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The regime has used blunt measures to try to control soaring gold prices, adding another layer to the precarious house of cards it’s built around Myanmar’s crumbling economy.
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Mong Yaw, an isolated area in Myanmar’s northern Shan State, has seen limited conflict since the coup, but blockades and a lack of supplies are taking a toll on one of the most impoverished parts of the state.
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The post-coup conflict in Myanmar’s Dry Zone has pitted villages against each other, while the junta’s boosting of allied militias has deepened the cycle of violence.
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When Myanmar's junta announced a conscription law to help crush a popular pro-democracy uprising, Ma Khaing knew there was only one way to escape its clutches, and began planning her escape.
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Tens of thousands of Myanmar citizens have fled to Thailand since the 2021 coup. They join an estimated 2 million Myanmar migrants already in the country. For them it’s been a struggle to get their rights, but activists have helped improve their conditions. This is the story of one of those migrant rights defenders.
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Prolonged electricity outages during this year’s hot season have taken a toll on businesses already struggling with rising costs and shortages of materials and labour, but the junta lacks a credible plan to fill the power gap.
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Theft, robbery and mugging have become so common in Yangon that it’s not even making the news these days. That’s according to crime victims who spoke to Doh Athan.
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Historic alliances have prevented tensions between armed groups from boiling over in Myanmar’s northern Shan State, but overlapping territorial claims and ethnic sensitivities keep them at a constant simmer.
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