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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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.
BY Frontier
Malaysia called yesterday for the extension and expansion of a post-earthquake ceasefire in Myanmar, as it ramped up calls for the long-awaited implementation of a five-point peace plan.
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After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing discrimination in Myanmar’s commercial capital.
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Forty years ago, Myanmar barmaid Daw Dar San Ye stood in a river running through Yangon, squaring up to a North Korean agent gripping a live grenade.
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It’s agonising to deal with the death of a close relative or friend but people who can’t find their loved ones often say this is worse. Many people have gone missing since the coup in Myanmar. In this week’s Doh Athan we hear about people unable to get that information and who are also exploited by officials.
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Utility cuts and a China-driven regional crackdown have dealt a blow to online gambling and scam operations on the Thai-Myanmar border, but a series of workarounds have kept the notorious industry going.
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A United Nations investigation into Myanmar on Wednesday urged the country's military rulers to end forced labour in the army and to halt all violence against trade unionists.
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One day he was earning good money as an oil driller, the next day he was jobless and living by the roadside. This is one story among thousands in Magway after the military shut down hundreds of private oil wells in June. How did that happen? And what can be done?
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Myanmar's junta announced Sunday it had begun a pilot census in 20 townships across the divided country, a move critics say will be used to increase surveillance of opponents.
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Through a budding police and court system, the resistance is confronting a crime wave in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, but limited resources have left them struggling to please all residents.
BY Frontier
Imagine you catch a treatable disease but then you are forced to live outside your village, away from your family, for years. That is the lonely fate of some people in northern Shan State.
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Myanmar's military escalated its use of mass killings, air and artillery strikes in the past year as it struggles to crush resistance to its coup, the United Nations' rights office said on Tuesday.
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