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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The Tatmadaw is in no hurry to release its grip on the seven-step roadmap for the transition to a ‘disciplined’ democracy it unveiled in August 2003.
BY Larry Jagan
Small parties have despaired over media attention given to ‘soft campaign’ flood relief activities by the Union Solidarity and Development Party and the National League for Democracy.
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Taunggyi’s dazzling annual pyrotechnics festival is becoming more popular, profitable and perilous.
Foul-mouthed rockstar Kyar Pauk used to wrangle with censors for artistic freedom, now he won't take orders from anyone — not even his fans.
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