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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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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Imagine you take your children abroad to escape conflict and grinding poverty in your own country, but then you cannot enrol them into any school. This is a situation that many Myanmar migrants have to face in Thailand, especially after their numbers have increased in the aftermath of the coup.
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The objectives and slogans of anti-junta protests across Myanmar are carefully coordinated and agreed on by a wide array of resistance groups, with the current focus on opposition to the military’s planned elections.
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Many Myanmar people have been arrested over the last year on suspicion of donating to groups resisting the military; others have seen their mobile banking accounts frozen. Such charges can lead to long jail terms with no chance of legal redress, whether they actually donated or not.
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