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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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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Orphanages and charitable boarding houses are stretched to the limit taking in children displaced by conflict across Myanmar, as donations dry up and the regime cracks down on civil society.
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Myanmar's junta is enforcing a law allowing the military to summon all men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 to serve for at least two years as it struggles to crush opposition to its 2021 coup.
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Despite heavy fighting in Kawkareik, resistance groups insist they haven’t launched an all-out offensive to seize the Kayin State town, but the battle has led to a rapprochement with an officer under investigation for human rights abuses.
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