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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While the National Unity Government has scored some impressive achievements and continues to enjoy widespread support in Myanmar, many would like to see internal reforms or a cabinet reshuffle, but institutional deadlocks make that unlikely.
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Patients have to pay bribes in public hospitals on the brink of collapse for lack of staff and funding, leaving charities struggling to care for the poor while dangerous quacks and charlatans exploit the most vulnerable.
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UN investigators said Tuesday they had gathered strong evidence of surging war crimes in Myanmar, including mass executions and sexual violence, and were building case files to help bring perpetrators to justice.
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As recovery efforts continue in Rakhine after Cyclone Mocha, some children are missing out on their education. Homes, schools and crops were damaged in the cyclone and many families are struggling just for basic survival.
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Resistance forces have arrested a member of the NLD’s central committee, accusing him of collaborating with the junta, but his defenders say he likely had no choice after the Myanmar military abducted his family.
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While fighting has subsided around the Kayin State town since fierce clashes in 2021, displaced residents are unable to return home because the area is sown with landmines planted by both the military and its opponents.
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A luxury housing bubble helped to enrich members of the military and their associates in the decade of reforms that preceded the 2021 coup, but a subsequent exodus of foreign professionals has tanked the rental market – possibly beyond repair.
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Jailed Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, although she still faces 14 others, state media said Tuesday.
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Myanmar's junta extended the country’s state of emergency by six months on Monday, signaling a delay to elections they had pledged to hold as the military battles anti-coup fighters across the country.
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