Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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While fighting has subsided around the Kayin State town since fierce clashes in 2021, displaced residents are unable to return home because the area is sown with landmines planted by both the military and its opponents.
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A luxury housing bubble helped to enrich members of the military and their associates in the decade of reforms that preceded the 2021 coup, but a subsequent exodus of foreign professionals has tanked the rental market – possibly beyond repair.
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Jailed Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has been pardoned in five criminal cases, although she still faces 14 others, state media said Tuesday.
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Myanmar's junta extended the country’s state of emergency by six months on Monday, signaling a delay to elections they had pledged to hold as the military battles anti-coup fighters across the country.
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Min Aung Hlaing is set to unveil a gigantic Buddha statue in Nay Pyi Taw, but critics say the compound reveals more about the senior general’s superstitions, megalomania and oppressive tendencies than his devotion to religion.
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Myanmar civilian leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, who was ousted in a 2021 military coup, has been moved from prison to a government building, an official from her party said Friday.
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The junta’s use of Buddhist nationalism has prevented many members of the sangha from joining the uprising against military rule, but it has also tarnished the reputation of Myanmar’s religious institutions in the eyes of the general public.
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Post-coup conflict and lawlessness are opening the door in Kachin State for unprecedented numbers of illegal Chinese traders to buy the world’s most highly prized jade directly from miners.
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Under decades of military rule, Myanmar football declined from its glory days in the 1960s, and the modest progress made during the transition years was spectacularly reversed by the pandemic and the coup.
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