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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Hardline Buddhist nationalist group Ma Ba Tha is closely associated with Mandalay, but some senior monks in the city are sharply critical of the organisation.
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The big winner in the election was the National League for Democracy. But who came up short?
Red pen mania reached new heights of opprobrium at censorship headquarters after the 2010 election, especially reports about advance voting that the government had good reason to terminate with extreme prejudice.
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In one of her first interviews following the National League for Democracy’s apparent victory at the polls, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday spoke to U Khin Maung Soe, Senior Editor for Radio Free Asia’s Burmese service. U Khin Maung Soe has permitted Frontier to reprint parts of the interview which touched on a wide range of issues including foreign policy, foreign investment and the need to look out for “instigations.”
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Attention will now focus on the final official results and their implications for the formation of the next government of Myanmar.
The ostensible target of the Monogamy Law is Muslim men with more than one wife, but the application of the law is having consequences for Buddhist men who are unfaithful to their wives.
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