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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Today, on International Women's Day, we respect and honour Myanmar women who are working towards democracy and human rights. Are women participating meaningfully on the political front? If not, why not? Are their contributions and expertise being fully valued?
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Student activist Ma Lin Lin led protests against Myanmar's junta, defying the generals for months before being hunted down and caught. Now serving a 15-year sentence, she regrets nothing.
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Amid a deep economic crisis and an influx of migrants fleeing conflict, rental prices are soaring in Myanmar’s commercial capital, where tenants are being taken advantage of by unscrupulous landlords and brokers.
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Mastery of English has defined social status to varying degrees since the colonial era, but the economic fallout from the coup has strengthened its power to both uplift and exclude.
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If you are a city child in a poor family in Myanmar, you might be missing out on your right to education these days. There are fewer organisations around to help street kids, but there’s one group trying to fill the gaps.
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As the TNLA expands its forced conscription policies to newly-conquered territories, a Frontier reporter reflects on his time with the group in 2021, and his friendship with a young Ta'ang boy destined for war since birth.
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Major international organisations have obeyed the military’s ban on working with parallel health services, leading to glaring disparities in childhood vaccinations that experts warn could endanger the entire country as well as the wider region.
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Some fear Laos will try to normalise the junta or serve Chinese interests, but while past behaviour shows a commitment to its ASEAN neighbours, it may ultimately just go through the motions and leave the status quo unchanged.
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Thousands of seasonal fishermen and their families are going hungry in Rakhine State. Travel restrictions imposed after the renewed conflict there have left them unable to earn a living – but they also can’t go home.
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