More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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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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Min Aung Hlaing is set to unveil a gigantic Buddha statue in Nay Pyi Taw, but critics say the compound reveals more about the senior general’s superstitions, megalomania and oppressive tendencies than his devotion to religion.
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The lack of information about political prisoners is causing great distress to their families. Even if hopes are raised when an amnesty is declared, these are likely to be dashed in a way which activists say is unnecessarily cruel.
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Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 military coup, has been moved from prison to a government building, an official from her party said Friday.
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The junta’s use of Buddhist nationalism has prevented many members of the sangha from joining the uprising against military rule, but it has also tarnished the reputation of Myanmar’s religious institutions in the eyes of the general public.
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Post-coup conflict and lawlessness are opening the door in Kachin State for unprecedented numbers of illegal Chinese traders to buy the world’s most highly prized jade directly from miners.
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Under decades of military rule, Myanmar football declined from its glory days in the 1960s, and the modest progress made during the transition years was spectacularly reversed by the pandemic and the coup.
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