Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.
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Use of modern contraception has increased significantly in Myanmar over the past decade but condoms use remains low because of perceived links to sex work and pre-marital intercourse.
As part of the NLD government’s plans to bring Universal Health Coverage to Myanmar by 2030, the Sun Quality Health Network has opened its doors to the poorest of the poor, offering subsidised health care to communities used to going without proper treatment.
Sluggish sales in the high end of the property market have prompted Yoma Strategic Holdings and First Myanmar Investment to move into “mass market” projects under the new brand Yoma Land.
But critics say putting pressure on children to excel is hampering their all-round development.
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Mother-tongue teaching is a feature of the Mon National School system but parents say their children would benefit from more institutions beyond primary level.
Daw Angela May Pan Oo completed a Master in Early Childhood Education at Columbia University in New York in 2015 before returning to Myanmar and establishing Central Park Preschool in Yankin Township.
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