The teak trees of the Bago Yoma mountain range have long been a target for illegal logging, but the practice has intensified amid the post-coup chaos, with the involvement of both junta and resistance forces.
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The teak trees of the Bago Yoma mountain range have long been a target for illegal logging, but the practice has intensified amid the post-coup chaos, with the involvement of both junta and resistance forces.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
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Photojournalist Mar Naw reflects on his travels earlier this year through southern Myanmar, where he documented a largely overlooked theatre of war.
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Crimes against humanity and war crimes committed by the Myanmar military have "escalated at an alarming rate", United Nations investigators warned today, citing systematic torture, gang rape and abuses against children.
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The junta trumpets free education but in reality hidden costs at schools, corruption among officials and discriminatory treatment are pushing many poor children to drop out.
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Technology from China has helped the Myanmar military upgrade its internet controls, but resourceful users continue to exploit holes in the cyber dragnet.
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Myanmar people seeking shelter in India’s northeastern Manipur state have been scapegoated for local bouts of ethnic conflict, in contrast to the largely warm reception in neighbouring Mizoram state.
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Myanmar's junta on Wednesday extended the state of emergency by six months, again delaying fresh polls it has promised to hold as it battles opposition to its coup.
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Relatives of those forcibly conscripted by the Myanmar military have little contact with their loved ones, and live in constant fear that they could be sent to fight and die for a cause they don’t believe in.
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Fighters from the United Wa State Army, Myanmar's most powerful ethnic armed group, have moved into a strategic town fought over by the junta and another ethnic armed group for weeks, they and the military said yesterday.
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The Myanmar military has been accused of using chemical weapons for decades, but definitive evidence has remained out of reach, partly due to bureaucratic deadlock and a lack of international support.
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