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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Refugees have been accepted for resettlement in the US and Australia but remain stuck in the border town of Mae Sot – at risk of arrest or deportation – because the Thai government is failing to issue exit permits.
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Thailand's foreign minister met with deposed State Counselor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi last week, he told reporters Wednesday, her first known meeting with a foreign envoy since she was detained following the 2021 coup.
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Amid signs of crisis at the Myanma Agricultural Development Bank, farmers behind on loan repayments have been threatened with land seizures, while bank staff are being squeezed by both the regime and the resistance.
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Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations will gather in Indonesia on Tuesday for talks set to be dominated by the crisis in Myanmar, with the regional bloc divided over how or whether to reengage with the coup-wracked country's junta.
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Amid a power vacuum and surging crime, Shan State’s varied armed groups are increasingly dispensing justice, but their judicial systems often violate human rights norms and are inspired by the Myanmar state that they claim to oppose.
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Bribery in Myanmar's prisons is neither new nor uncommon. But reports from families and friends of political prisoners suggest that huge bribes are being demanded by some officials. And in many cases, it's all for nothing.
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A growing number of resistance groups and non-state service providers are reaping rewards from lotteries, as the junta gambles with online ticket sales to counter a boycott on what had been a multi-billion-kyat revenue stream.
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The United Nations on Thursday urged the international community to deny Myanmar's junta access to foreign weapons and currency as the conflict-wracked country's humanitarian crisis deepens.
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The junta’s sudden ban on mostly small-scale oil producers in the Dry Zone has destroyed the livelihoods of hundreds of thousands, in a move industry sources suspect is aimed at denying funds to the resistance.
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