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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Yangon holds its first municipal elections in more than 60 years with universal adult suffrage, but most residents stay shy of the polling stations.
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Train-loving photographers are helping to keep Myanmar’s last steam locomotives rolling but not for much longer, thanks to big-budget railway upgrades.
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The deputy leader of the Arakan Army tells Frontier in the border town of Laiza in Kachin State about the group’s shift in focus to Rakhine State and why the Rakhine people may have to endure more suffering in the years ahead.
BY Ye Mon
Campaigning for municipal elections in Yangon has revealed ambiguities around campaign finance that could open the door to corruption.
Campaigning for municipal elections in Yangon has revealed ambiguities around campaign finance that could open the door to corruption.
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Like many people, I was shocked and appalled at the recent post by Refinery29’s “Money Diaries” in which an overpaid NGO worker detailed a week of luxury living.
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