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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Myanmar’s human rights commission has a credibility problem — but critics argue that it can’t be solved by simply replacing its current members.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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BY Su Myat Mon
Myanmar NGOs say their local knowledge is justification for having a bigger say in decisions on humanitarian aid and development and a bigger share of funding.
Amid tightening restrictions on the use of trishaws in downtown Yangon, pedallers are calling on city authorities to resume issuing licences for the vehicles.
BY Thi Ri Han
A World Food Programme decision to cut food aid to some IDP camps in Rakhine has been condemned by other UN agencies, NGOs and rights advocates.
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A recent photo of former Senior General Than Shwe receiving a high-level Chinese visitor led some to speculate that the former dictator still has the ability to influence politics.
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