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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The United Nations slammed Tuesday the Myanmar junta's "unfathomable" decision to suspend travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach more than a million people in cyclone-ravaged Rakhine State.
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Tea cultivators in Shan are struggling to recruit workers due to low wages as well as conflict, while a lack of investment and infrastructure is inhibiting exports.
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An overreliance on the junta for access and insufficient engagement with local actors has hampered the international response to Cyclone Mocha in Rakhine State. It’s time for a new approach.
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After the military brutally cracked down on peaceful demonstrations in Myanmar against the 2021 coup, many protesters took up arms to fight the regime. But some people continue to peacefully defend their right to freedom of expression despite enormous risks.
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We are launching our new Doh Athan Doh Talk ('our voice, our talk') monthly discussion podcast. Two Shan environmental activists explain how mining has increased since the 2021 coup in Shan State, fuelling the Tatmadaw's war machine, and how natural resource federalism would benefit local people.
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The Arakan Army’s presence in southern Chin State has long been a source of ethnic tensions which have eased following the emergence of a common enemy after the coup, but the underlying disagreement over who should control Paletwa remains unresolved.
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With commercialism and escapism fuelling the domestic art scene, and exhibitions abroad trying to recapture the spirit of post-coup protests, many in Myanmar are deprived of work that reflects their new reality.
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A charity group has responded to the military’s brutal arson campaign in Sagaing Region by building palm huts for those who lost their houses, but it’s struggling to keep up with the rate of devastation.
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Cash-strapped schools on the border are struggling to accommodate children fleeing war and poverty in Myanmar, while teachers in the Civil Disobedience Movement who fled to Thailand have to work in fields and factories due to lack of support.
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