An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
BY Frontier
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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If Myanmar needs a guide in its fight against COVID-19, it need look no further than what human rights law already demands of it.
BY Jenny Domino
The recent publication of famed historian Dr Than Tun’s PhD thesis on Buddhism and Bagan provides a reminder that the primary sources do not support much of what we have been taught about Myanmar’s first empire.
BY Dr Myint Zan
The health ministry was able to rapidly scale up testing when the second wave of the virus first broke, but since the wave turned to a flood it has struggled to stay afloat.
BY Frontier
Land reform is the perfect election pledge for the National League for Democracy to show that it is serious about addressing land rights issues and resolving a key concern of ethnic minorities.
In the temple-strewn Rakhine State township, most would-be voters say they’re trying too hard to survive to take much interest in the November election.
The election in the southern Mandalay Region township is a fierce contest between the ruling NLD and military-backed USDP, but local enthusiasm for the vote is muted – and a lack of voter education isn’t helping.
BY Swe Lei Mon
Ethnic identity is poised to define the election in the Kachin State capital, where votes from internal migrants and Tatmadaw soldiers could tip the scales in a close race.
BY Hkun Lat
Mobile internet and COVID-19 restrictions have combined to make a free and fair election impossible in Rakhine State, parties say.
The damage that COVID-19-targeted restrictions are having on election campaigns could be limited if the Ministry of Information allowed political parties to buy radio and TV ads.
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