The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
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The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
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An escalation in fighting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Tatmadaw near the town of Mong Ko on the China border has emptied villages, while inflaming longstanding tensions over who controls the area.
As military repression ramps up, some trade unions and activists are calling on brands to boycott Myanmar’s garment sector – but not everyone believes the campaign will hit its intended target.
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Myanma Timber Enterprise responds to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency alleging widespread corruption in the teak trade.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
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Residents of coastal villages in Tanintharyi Region say their livelihoods have been hurt by work on an LNG-fired power project involving European companies Total and Siemens.
BY Ye Htut Win
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်အတွက် စမ်းသပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေသလို အစိုးရကို လူထုနှင့် ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သွားစေလိမ့်မည်ဖြစ်သော်လည်း တချို့ကတော့ အလျင်စလို နိုင်လွန်းမည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်။
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In the fields near Minhla in Magway Region, informal oil entrepreneurs scramble from site to site in the hope of striking lucky.
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Reducing the Tatmadaw’s huge economic stakes, particularly in natural resource extraction, is integral to ending conflict and repression in Myanmar.
For millions of smallholder farmers in Myanmar, a deadline has passed.
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