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 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.
BY Oliver Slow
Members of one of the smallest Shan ethnic groups live in constant fear of having to pay taxes or provide conscripts to one of the nation’s biggest ethnic armed organisations.
U Sonny Aung Khin, owner of traditional Myanmar restaurant Padonmar in Dagon Township, discusses his five decades in the tourism industry, including 16 years in Bangkok sending curious foreign visitors to socialist-era Burma.
BY Thomas Kean
Mandalay is not the tropical paradise that many envision but there’s more to it than simply pagodas, temples and U Bein’s Bridge.
Two decades after the first foreign visitors arrived, Kayah State is finally embracing tourism – but more investment is needed to build on the early promise.
BY Oliver Slow
Introduced in 2013, Myanmar’s Tourist Police Force has grown to nearly 400 officers, but they can’t be found at some tourist scam hotspots and lack the powers to investigate crime.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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