A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
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A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
BY Frontier
The military regime is set to drop meaningful structural reforms from an economic recovery plan initiated by the former National League for Democracy government, and is instead promising to slash red tape in a bid to shore up collapsing business confidence.
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A split in the Tatmadaw has until now been considered unlikely but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
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If China and India seek sustainable development in Myanmar, they should engage more locally and listen to the voices of affected communities. For China, this starts with the Myitsone Dam.
The wife of a Myanmar military officer was killed by a pipe bomb as they moved into a new home in northern Rakhine State, the army said Friday.
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တပ်မတော်အား လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့် အများအပြားပေးအပ်ထားသည့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေအား ပြင်ဆင်ရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှုအား ထောက်ခံသည့် ဆန္ဒပြပွဲကို ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၂၇ ရက်နေ့၊ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းက ရန်ကုန်မြို့လယ်၌ ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ လူထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့သည်။
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In early 2016, the creation of the State Counsellor position for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi prompted cries of “democratic bullying” from unelected Tatmadaw MPs.
A month after soldiers and workers turned up and fenced off their fields, farmers in South Dagon were still trying to learn who or what is behind the apparent land grab.
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