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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What risks would you take to support your family? Domestic workers are often extremely vulnerable because their work is behind closed doors. Even more so when they are thousands of miles away from home without a support system.
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Myanmar is steeped in trauma from past and present conflict and dictatorial rule – but with the breakdown of already meagre public health infrastructure since the 2021 coup, communities themselves are acquiring the tools to tackle the mental toll.
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The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.
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Imagine a battle broke out around you but you were unable to flee. That’s what happened to thousands of inmates of Lashio Prison during the resistance offensive in July. Some of them spoke to Doh Athan about their ordeal.
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December 26 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Indian ocean tsunami. Over 220,000 people were killed across 14 countries. In southern Thailand, Myanmar migrants were called "the forgotten victims" of that tragedy, but there are some still there who remember that day and miss those who were lost.
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Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
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The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army has said it is ready for China-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.
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Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers.
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Gender-based violence can affect women anywhere. But how could you get out of the situation if you live in a refugee camp which neither you nor your abuser could leave?
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