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.
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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.
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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.
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Myanmar businesses have been setting up shop in Thailand since it decriminalised cannabis last year, while back in Myanmar, a pioneering dispensary has opened in an area controlled by the armed resistance.
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The raging conflict and the junta’s crackdown on civil society has made it more difficult for civilians in central Myanmar to access water, forcing them to undertake dangerous journeys or drink from unhealthy sources.
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“Destroying homes is like crushing hearts,” says a teacher we’ll call ‘Coral’. Her family had their house in Sagaing Region burned down by the military.
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Former United Nations secretary general Ban Ki-moon met for talks with top officials from Myanmar’s junta on Monday as the bloody conflict engulfing the country spirals.
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The military regime’s rationing of fuel consumption to lower Myanmar’s import bill has fuelled illegal sales, while hoarding by businesses and profiteering by speculators have hiked the price of petrol and other goods.
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In late January, interns at an immigration detention centre in southern Thailand staged a rare protest. They complained about the absymal conditions and demanded to be released. Why is the situation so bad in Thailand's IDCs and why migrants are held in them for so long?
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Farmers and other land-owners have no legal recourse against a regime using war to seize land for military bases, client corporations and grandiose infrastructure projects.
If you are a woman and a resistance fighter in Myanmar, you are a double target for the military, which is increasingly using sexual violence against the resistance. Two female fighters who are determined to protect their communities despite the risks tell us their stories.
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The coup has inflicted all kinds of suffering on older people, ranging from fiery deaths in burning villages to grieving for sons and daughters killed.
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