More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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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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People returning to their villages after a January ceasefire are struggling to access healthcare, with public hospitals left empty and the Myanmar military blocking medical deliveries, while some volunteers try to fill the gap.
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Opposition forces in Myanmar are trying to roll out public services in newly-conquered territories, but public resentment is holding them back from employing regime civil servants.
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Myanmar prisons are notoriously unhealthy and reports suggest they have got worse since the coup. Imagine being pregnant and having to give birth in these conditions and then raise your baby in jail! That’s the alarming situation for a number of political prisoners.
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More than 1,000 people lined up at the Thai embassy in Yangon today as young people sought to leave Myanmar after the junta said it would impose military service.
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Unregulated lead mining is polluting the waters in Tanintharyi’s Bokpyin Township, while locals say most of the money is going to outsiders or lining the pockets of corrupt officials.
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Go to jail or serve in the army - that’s the choice being given to some young men who find themselves arbitrarily arrested in Myanmar. But recent defectors say, once in the army, they have found surprising sources of help.
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