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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY AFP
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Myanmar has one of the highest death rates in Southeast Asia from rabies, a 100 percent vaccine-preventable disease.
BY Oliver Slow
The continuing presence of political prisoners in Myanmar’s jails strains believability in the government’s democratic credentials and its claims that next month’s election will be free and fair.
One night earlier this month, the Myanmar Mobile Education Project (myME) held its first class of the new term on the side of a street in downtown Yangon – or rather, in the street itself.
Overfishing, corruption, indebted labour, boats going bankrupt and a lack of scientific data are creating problems for the seafood industry in Myeik.
BY Hans Hulst
As President U Thein Sein’s tenure nears an end, a timely documentary has re-focussed attention on his pledge to suspend work on the Myitsone Dam.
BY Oliver Slow
A liberalization of Myanmar’s telecommunications sector has contributed to the arrival of new applications aimed at keeping voters informed in November’s election.
Constitutional provisions guarding the Tatmadaw’s interests and a militarized bureaucracy will be among the many challenges facing the country’s next government if democratic parties triumph in the election.
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