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 Gambia dismissed arguments by the Myanmar military’s legal team, which claimed that the International Court of Justice does not have jurisdiction to rule on.
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Since the coup, security forces have protected the wealthy and well-connected in the capital, and left everyone else to deal with a rising crime wave on their own.
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Unscrupulous factory owners have used the coup to cut wages and harass workplace unions, but successful strikes at two plants late last year have highlighted the determination of workers to resist exploitation and abuse.
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Vicky Bowman, Director of the Myanmar Center for Responsible Business features in our Q&A about the future of business and human rights in Myanmar.
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Military airstrikes by the junta have found new targets in IDP camps in
southeast Myanmar. A number of IDPs have been killed and others have fled to the jungle for safety.
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A team of Myanmar activists working in the shadows is using social media and messaging apps to persuade disillusioned junta soldiers to desert their posts and topple the military.
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The military’s deliberate bombing of camps sheltering people displaced by war has terrorised tens of thousands of IDPs, including in Kayah and Kayin states.
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Local people call for community leaders to do more to stop one of Kachin State’s most influential businessmen and his company from digging up and destroying land near Myitsone.
This week, pregnant women in Chin State are unable to access routine maternal healthcare, with infant mortality and malnutrition on the rise. The conflict in.
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