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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It can be challenging for an interpreter of English to Myanmar to ensure that nothing is lost in translation.
BY Khaing Tun
Opium production is causing severe environmental degradation in northern Shan State, but a crop substitution project in the south is a reason for hope.
BY Niels Larsen
A Myanmar Skate Association team heads to Malaysia later this month to compete in an international competition for the first time.
Despite far-reaching political reforms in recent years, Myanmar's human rights activists are once again feeling the sharp end of the stick as the 2015 election looms.
BY Oliver Slow
The National League for Democracy is preparing for the election battle with renewed energy. In recent weeks it has become increasingly obvious that months of planning and organising are beginning to bear fruit. It is a resurgent, revitalised and reinvigorated NLD that is emerging to fight for power on November 8. It is no longer the introspective party, lacking in vision, that seemed to have lost its way after its overwhelming victory in the 1990 election for a constituent assembly.
BY Larry Jagan
Whoever emerges as the front-runner for the highest o ce after the elections will have the Tatmadaw’s support.
BY Larry Jagan
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