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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY AFP
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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဟာ မြန်မာနိုင်ငံရဲ့ ဖွံ့ဖြိုးမှုအနည်းဆုံးဒေသဖြစ်ပြီး ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်မှာ ကမ္ဘာ့ဘဏ်ရဲ့ အကဲဖြတ်ချက်အရ လူ ၁၀ ဦးအနက် ၈ ဦးလောက်ဟာ ဆင်းရဲမွဲတေစွာ နေထိုင်ကြရပါတယ်။ ကျေးလက်နေပြည်သူတွေ သူတို့ရဲ့ကျေးရွာတွေ စီးပွားရေး တည်ငြိမ်မှုရှိရေး၊ သူတို့ရဲ့လူမှုအသိုင်းအဝိုင်းတွေ အစားအစာဖူလုံရေးတို့အတွက် ဘဏ္ဍာရေးအလားအလားကောင်းတွေ ရှိနေဖို့က မဖြစ်မနေလိုအပ်လှပါတယ်။
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BY Debby Chan
Successes and setbacks have marked a challenging first year in office for the NLD as it strives to implement a comprehensive reform agenda.
BY Oliver Slow
Building a working relationship with the Tatmadaw has been one of the NLD government’s most important achievements, but it needs to work harder at managing the economy.
Tired of the chaotic party in Yangon, our writer looks at the options for those who want to escape the city during the Thingyan New Year holiday.
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BY Htun Khaing
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