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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY Frontier
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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It was an obscenity to use the deaths of those who died in last month's ferry crash — several of whom were young children — as a political tool.
BY Frontier
Military rule wrecked Myanmar’s higher education system and the new government faces many challenges to restore it.
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Military rule wrecked Myanmar’s higher education system and the new government faces many challenges to restore it.
BY Myanmar Now
Myanmar benefits from a vast and surprisingly efficient free-market recycling system and those who support it at the grassroots deserve more credit for their work.
သြင်္ကန်ကာလ ၎င်းတို့၏ အဝတ်အစား၊ ပြုမူနေထိုင်ပုံတို့နှင့်ပတ်သက်၍ အမျိုးသမီးများအား သတိပေး ပြောဆိုခြင်းများ ရှိသည်။ ယင်းမှာ အဓမ္မပြုကျင့်သော ယဉ်ကျေးမှုကို အားကောင်းစေရန် ခံရသူများအပေါ် အပြစ်ဖို့သော ဥပမာများပင် ဖြစ်သည်ဟု အမျိုးသမီးဝါဒီတို့က သတ်မှတ်ထားသည်။
Trevor Wilson was Australia’s ambassador to Myanmar from 2000 to 2003, when Western sanctions were pushing the country closer to China, the repression of activists was ruthless, and the country was ruled by the State Peace and Development Council. In August 2003, the SPDC unveiled its seven-point “roadmap to a discipline-flourishing democracy”, that paved the way for the remarkable transition which began under the Thein Sein government in 2011.
The change of government has revived a debate on creating a federal state and some see the Indian model as best satisfying the aspirations of Myanmar’s national minorities.
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