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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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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Trapped in an economic mess of its own making, Myanmar’s military regime is seeking to recoup drops in revenue through new tax measures – with seemingly limited success so far.
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If you are between 18 and 35 years old, are you torn between your ambitions and your ideals, between your family needs and a national cause? This week a Frontier journalist hears about this dilemma from locals in Mindat.
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Under sanctions and desperate for hard currency, the military regime is forcing Myanmar workers abroad to remit earnings through formal channels, with some warning it will only push more migrants to become undocumented.
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The regime’s planned population count threatens to boost its powers of surveillance and leave dissidents with few places to hide.
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Myanmar's military regime has asked China for help implementing a new electronic identification system, state media reported on Wednesday, for a census that critics say will be used to increase surveillance of its opponents.
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Militaries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations began their first-ever joint exercises on Tuesday in Indonesia, with a Myanmar junta representative present despite the bloc's ban on its senior leaders.
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People living with HIV are finding it harder to access life-saving care due to civil war and a crumbling healthcare system, while also facing continued social stigma and discrimination.
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