An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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A coalition of resistance groups had seized sections of Union Highway 8 in the country’s deep south, but is now struggling to hold on in the face of a major military counter-offensive.
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Civilians and resistance groups have pursued a range of technical workarounds in the face of prolonged internet blackouts, each of which has its own strengths and drawbacks.
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The Three Brotherhood Alliance said yesterday it had agreed a four-day ceasefire with the junta in northern Shan State following clashes in which its fighters seized territory from the military along a strategic highway to China.
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The domes and spires of Myanmar's temple town of Bagan mark an island of calm in the country's raging civil war, but with conflict keeping tourists away locals are struggling to make ends meet.
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A journey into Chin State, bordering India in Myanmar’s mountainous northwest, reveals a struggle where former migrant workers and local chess champions are giving everything to oust a ruthless regime.
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Myanmar ethnic minority fighters said Wednesday they had seized a town along a key trade highway to China following days of clashes, in another blow to the military.
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The Myanmar junta’s “anti-disinformation team” claims to just counter fake news, but operates in cooperation with the military and police to crack down on dissidents and expose resistance groups.
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The depletion of mangrove forests in Tanintharyi Region has constrained the illicit crossborder trade, even as prices remain high, but small-scale producers in Myanmar’s deep south have few other ways to make a living.
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The regime has used blunt measures to try to control soaring gold prices, adding another layer to the precarious house of cards it’s built around Myanmar’s crumbling economy.
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