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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Across Sagaing Region, revolutionaries risk life and limb to fashion salvaged metal into weapons they hope will turn the tide in the war against the military.
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The United Nations has warned that Myanmar’s children could become a lost generation. Since the military coup, at least a quarter of a million have had to flee from their homes, hundreds have been arrested, and hundreds killed. There are many more who have witnessed horrific violence, which psychologists say could leave them deeply traumatised.
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Myanmar military air strikes on a concert held by the Kachin Independence Army killed around 50 people and wounded 70, including civilians, the group said on Monday.
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Bribes, lawlessness and growing poverty have fuelled a surge in illegal gambling, driving some punters to ruin and despair and sparking local crime waves.
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The closure of Myanmar’s biggest mines due to the post-coup conflict has contributed to an 80 percent plummet in export earnings over the last two years.
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Humanitarian aid reaching northern Shan IDP camps has plummeted in the last year, forcing some children to forgo their educations and find work to support their families.
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As resolute resistance forces continue to find gaps in the military’s defences, the regime is tightening security in its capital city.
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Weeks of fierce fighting erupted last month in the strategic southern Shan town of Moebye, resulting in an uneasy stalemate between the Tatmadaw and a coalition of resistance fighters.
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Elderly people are struggling to keep up with Myanmar's burgeoning cost of living. Sources of support have disappeared since the coup, leaving many with no income at all.
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