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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There are more than 250 pawnshops in Yangon Region and they provide a vital service to low-income earners whose only other source of quick cash is loan sharks charging usurious rates.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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BY Oliver Slow
There are unlikely parallels between Spain in 1936 and Myanmar today, and one is expectation tinged with realism about whether the future will be a better place.
BY Khin Zaw Win
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BY Sean Gleeson
Exponents of one of Myanmar’s traditional martial arts are fighting to revive its popularity but face challenges from a younger generation more interested in other fighting techniques.
BY Thi Ri Han
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Ashin Nyar Na has spent nearly 16 years in jail for unorthodox beliefs that have angered the powerful supreme body representing Buddhist monks in Myanmar.
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