For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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The 225-megawatt Myingyan power plant has been described as a landmark project for Myanmar’s power sector and a model for future development, but not everyone’s convinced.
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BY Su Myat Mon
Escalating fighting, bitter and growing ethnic tensions and mysterious killings are blighting Rakhine State, and the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon.
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BY Ye Mon
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Yangon holds its first municipal elections in more than 60 years with universal adult suffrage, but most residents stay shy of the polling stations.
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်စည်ပင်သာယာရေးကော်မတီ အဆင့်ဆင့် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ပွဲကို ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ယနေ့ (မတ် ၃၁ ရက်)က ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ စိတ်ဝင်စားသူနည်းပါးခဲ့ပြီး မဲစာရင်းတွင် အမည်မပါရှိသဖြင့် မဲပေးခွင့်မရသူများလည်းရှိခဲ့သလို မဲသွားရောက်မပေးခဲ့သူ အများအပြားရှိခဲ့သည်။
Train-loving photographers are helping to keep Myanmar’s last steam locomotives rolling but not for much longer, thanks to big-budget railway upgrades.
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