Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.
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Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.
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The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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