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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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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Since the military coup there has been an influx into Thailand of Myanmar political exiles and economic migrants who are competing for work in order to survive. Activists in Mae Sot say this has led to an increase in labour rights violations.
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While the civilian government largely turned a blind eye to people illegally living on designated farmland, the junta is threatening to crackdown on them, which could leave thousands in Mandalay Region homeless.
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Degrees of culpability must be carefully weighed to stop justice turning into vindictiveness, while those claiming authority need to come clean about their own past deeds.
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