Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
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
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An enterprising woman turns a life-long passion for horses into an award-winning business on the shore of Inle Lake.
BY Sha Miao
Though rooted in old beliefs about a primordial realm of serpents, snake temples, or mway paya, are a growing phenomenon in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's army chief has given a rare foreign media interview to insist there was no proof the military persecuted the Rohingya community.
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BY Su Myat Mon
တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ ဦးကိုနီနှင့် အငှားယာဉ်မောင်း ကိုနေဝင်းတို့ အသက်ခံရသည့်အမှုအား စစ်ဆေး စီရင်ခဲ့ရာတွင် အထူးခုံရုံးက ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်ဟု တရားရုံးတာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောကြားသည်
BY Su Myat Mon
One of the nation’s biggest madrassas is thriving in a Sagaing Region town where it was built on land donated by a Buddhist.
The only surprising thing about the failure of payment service provider Red Dot was the apparent suddenness with which the company departed.
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