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.
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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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.
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi issues a legal challenge to critics after being peppered with questions about race and religion during her campaign trip to Rakhine State.
The controversial Letpadaung copper mine near Monywa in Sagaing Region has turned dispossessed farmers into activists who are determined to keep fighting for their rights.
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