Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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The Young Men’s Buddhist Association promised to end its involvement in politics, but there are signs it might be changing its mind.
BY Hein Thar
For years, residents of a conflict-blighted area of Shan State had ‘kept their anger inside’, but after the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 villagers marched in protest.
It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.
BY Frontier
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
BY Luke Corbin
Thirty solar projects received more than 150 bids, many from Chinese companies.
BY Thomas Kean
Public exchanges between the US and Chinese embassies in Yangon have echoes from the Cold War that test Myanmar’s neutralist stance.
Millions of the nation’s most vulnerable families are receiving cash handouts totalling K40,000 to alleviate the impact of COVID-19, but some appear to be falling through the cracks.
BY Frontier
Several thousand protesters marched in southeast Myanmar to demand the military's withdrawal from the area and an end to rights abuses.
BY AFP
The leadership of the Arakan National Party has been accused of acting “like dictators” for refusing to allow some of its MPs to resign and contest the election for rival Rakhine parties.
BY Frontier
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