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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The conflict, arson and violence in northern Rakhine State's Buthidaung Township in recent weeks has rightly grabbed media attention. But war has also reached the previously tranquil tourist haven of Thandwe Township in the south and locals are ill prepared to deal with it.
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Caught between an obstructive regime and bureaucratic inertia, the United Nations in Myanmar has struggled to fulfil its mandate since the 2021 coup.
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Resistance groups in Myanmar’s Mon State have been emboldened by the support of an ethnic splinter militia, but political divisions are still holding them back from building a united front.
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Tucked away in the mountains of western Cambodia are the remnants of a once-thriving Myanmar community known as the Kula, whose decline is a little-explored mystery involving gems, dreams and the Khmer Rouge.
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For the past four months, there haven’t been any clashes between the regime and the Three Brotherhood Alliance in northern Shan State. Despite this, civilians are still being harmed by landmines and unexploded ordinance.
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Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by Rakhine State’s Pauktaw town for victory against the junta in the country's civil war.
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In an extract from her new book, On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar, former Frontier editor Clare Hammond describes travelling to the Kayah State capital of Loikaw on a railway that was built in the 1990s with mass forced labour.
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Frontier reporter Hein Thar reflects on a recent journalism exchange trip to the United States, and his hopes for Myanmar’s own media development.
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Denied the chance to celebrate their union in their homeland, where LGBTQ people face persecution and imprisonment, a Myanmar queer couple seeks peace and happiness in the more tolerant kingdom next door.
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