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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Activists in Sagaing Region are trying to rekindle a mass movement against military rule in parallel with the armed struggle, but conflict and displacement make this a formidable challenge.
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The Civil Disobedience Movement was at the heart of the initial resistance to the military coup in Myanmar. But the numbers of workers in the CDM are shrinking as authorities continue to make their lives extremely difficult.
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Almost 50,000 people have been displaced by fighting in northern Myanmar after an alliance of ethnic armed groups launched an offensive against the military two weeks ago, the United Nations said today.
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Beijing on Tuesday confirmed there had been Chinese casualties after ethnic armed groups fighting Myanmar's junta seized outposts in the country's north along the border with China.
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People living in the Naga mountains have never had great access to health care. But since the coup, locals say services have deteriorated drastically and the regime has cut off a vital communications network used in medical emergencies.
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Myanmar's junta chief vowed on Thursday to strike back after an alliance of ethnic armed groups seized towns and blocked trade routes to China in the biggest coordinated offensive against the military since it seized power in a coup.
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Armed groups collecting taxes in Myanmar’s Lashio is nothing new, but a mysterious outfit is upping the ante by bombing public places if its demands are not met and refusing to negotiate.
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Myanmar's military has lost control of a strategic northern town on the Chinese border following days of clashes with three ethnic armed groups, a junta spokesman said.
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The regime quietly conducted a pilot census last month, with the exercise showing glimmers of a planned surveillance state while the spectre of violence continues to loom over next year’s nationwide event.
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