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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Fear, rumours and the sound of fighting accompanied Frontier on a precarious journey through the battle zone in northeastern Shan State.
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Traders are right to feel aggrieved given the many snap policy changes since 2011, many of which have often left them worse off.
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New satellite imagery suggests that the burning of villages in northern Rakhine was conducted by members of security forces, not by villagers as the government has claimed, New York-based Human Rights Watch has said.
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More than five years after conflict resumed in Kachin State, 100,000 people remain displaced and IDP camp coordinators are reporting rising drug use as residents lose hope of returning home.
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