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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A Frontier editor reflects on the legacy of the recently deceased former New Mexico governor and fringe diplomat who helped free him from prison in Myanmar.
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The LGBTIQ community was a visible part of the street protests after the military coup. But activists say this has made them even more of a target for discrimination. And yet they are still fighting for respect and inclusion in the opposition movement.
BY Frontier
Southeast Asian leaders strongly condemned violence and attacks on civilians in Myanmar, directly blaming the ruling junta, with host Indonesia saying at a summit on Tuesday there had been scant progress on an agreed peace plan.
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An Israeli state-owned company has sent four shipments of aircraft parts to Myanmar since the military seized power in 2021, as the air force ramps up attacks on resistance groups and civilians.
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Myanmar's junta will likely hold elections in 2025, party officials told AFP on Tuesday, even as the military struggles to crush resistance to its rule.
BY AFP
On August 25, 2017, the Myanmar military began a campaign of brutal attacks on Rohingya people in northern Rakhine State, sending more than 700,000 fleeing across the Bangladesh border.
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Southeast Asian leaders will gather today in Indonesia for talks set to be dominated by the crisis in Myanmar and China's growing assertiveness in the South China Sea.
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With no faith in Myanmar’s broken justice system, some relatives of political prisoners are turning to superstitious practices and fortune tellers – rather than lawyers – in desperate attempts to release their loved ones.
BY Frontier
The conflict which has spread across the country since the military coup has not reached the remote Naga region. But its impact is certainly being felt. Locals are facing severe food shortages because of disrupted supply routes, limits set by the military on the transport of goods and soaring rice prices.
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