A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
Since being banned from Facebook, some of the most prominent spreaders of hate speech and disinformation have moved to Telegram, and fact-checkers say the messaging app is doing little to regulate its platform.
Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.
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With new facilities, imported equipment and foreign expertise, a state-owned enterprise is expanding its pharmaceutical business – and even moving into export markets.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
A semi-autobiographical work of fiction set in the jade mining town of Hpakant in Kachin State, where landscapes are ravaged and people discarded like the rocks they scramble for.
BY Frontier
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s central European tour made headlines for all the wrong reasons.
Two schoolboys who vanished from the Sagaing Region capital six months ago are feared to have become victims of human trafficking into the fishing industry.
If your home is in a flood-prone area and sloshing about in water is disrupting your family life, there’s a company in Mandalay that offers an uplifting solution.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
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A depletion in the variety of local food sources, stubborn poverty rates and stretched health services are driving high rates of malnutrition in the Ayeyarwady delta.
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ရန်ကုန်မြို့ မဟာဗန္ဓုလပန်းခြံ၌ လူပေါင်း ၇၄၀ က နိုင်ငံတော်၏ အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ် ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ရုပ်ပုံကို ကားချပ်များဖြင့် စုပေါင်းပုံဖော်ခဲ့ကြသည်။ ဓာတ်ပုံ-အေအက်ဖ်ပီ
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