More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
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More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
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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.
The last ruler of the princely Shan state of Hsipaw returned home from the United States in 1954 with grand development ideas but was arrested during the Ne Win coup in 1962 and never seen again.
Frontier looks back over key events during the term of President U Thein Sein, an unassuming former general whose reforms laid the foundation for a transformed Myanmar.
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Eight months after devastating floods, some villagers in Chin State whose homes were destroyed are moving their entire communities to higher, safer ground.
BY Oliver Slow
The NLD government must meet three main challenges to achieve its agenda for reform and development and they all involve its relationship with the Tatmadaw.
A new passport kindles memories of an encounter with a Gautemalan Rasta named Fresh, a frog from a Thai market and a bus to Mexico City.
ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ကြွယ်ဝချမ်းသာမှု၊ ချစ်ကြည်ရင်းနှီးမှုတွေကို ဒေသတွင်းသာမက တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးခံစားနိုင်တဲ့ အခွင့်အလမ်းအနေနဲ့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြောင်းလည်း ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ပြောကြားခဲ့တယ်
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The Mandalay real estate market is in the doldrums and the reasons include factors special to the former royal capital, such as a downturn in the gems trade and a crackdown on drug trafficking.
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