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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A rehabilitation centre on Yangon's outskirts is home to more than 400 boys aged under 18 who have committed a crime or were living on the street.
BY Htun Khaing
Kite Tales Myanmar aims to document many of the country’s personal accounts that might otherwise have been lost to history.
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The government is coming under pressure from human rights groups to open northern Rakhine State to independent observers so they can investigate claims of abuses by the security forces.
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Mr Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Frontier following his tour of Kachin and Rakhine states.
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The 47-year-old British victim, named as Peter Gary Ferguson, was found dead on Sunday with wounds to his head and chest.
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President U Htin Kyaw broke down in tears on the weekend while recalling his father’s contributions to Myanmar’s literary canon.
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