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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Against a slow decline in resistance attacks in the commercial capital, junta-aligned neighbourhood security teams are openly harassing and extorting communities.
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December 3 marked the International Day of Persons with Disabilities. But activists in Myanmar say their rights have been steadily eroded since the 2021 military coup. Many more people are unemployed, and those in conflict areas face challenges to their basic right to live.
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Facing losses on the battlefield, the military regime is increasingly raising and arming militias known as Pyusawhti, but poor pay and steep risks are prompting some members to desert.
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People who have been sentenced in civilian courts since the military coup may feel they got rough justice. But those who were arrested and tried in areas under martial law have no right to a defence or even to appeal.
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Rural development programmes in Myanmar have lagged after the 2021 coup, recalling the neglect, incompetence, corruption and isolation of past military regimes.
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Those displaced by conflict in central Myanmar face a sinister threat in the form of venomous snakes, exacerbated by the military’s travel restrictions and hoarding of antivenom.
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Online loan app scams have exploded in Myanmar amid a deep economic crisis, trapping victims with predatory interest rates and blackmailing them after accessing their personal data.
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Myanmar refugees in the Indian state of Manipur have told Doh Athan they are struggling to stay safe and get basic health care. Some are in hiding now, after members of the community were treated as suspects of a local killing.
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Dozens of families lie on mats surrounded by their belongings at a Buddhist monastery in Rakhine State, the latest to be uprooted by a civil war that has displaced hundreds of thousands.
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