Instability and anti-Chinese sentiment are endangering Beijing’s plans in the country, but rivalry with the West and its own domestic problems may prevent it from engaging the democracy movement, which remains wary of China.
BY Frontier
Instability and anti-Chinese sentiment are endangering Beijing’s plans in the country, but rivalry with the West and its own domestic problems may prevent it from engaging the democracy movement, which remains wary of China.
BY Frontier
Years of effort to rebuild trust in the banking sector after the crippling 2003 financial crisis have been wasted due to the military’s seizure of power and its manipulation of the Central Bank.
BY Frontier
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
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Ex-guards describe convicts perishing en masse from exhaustion, vicious beatings, and starvation at remote camps with no access to medical care.
BY Myanmar Now
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BY Eva Hirschi
Most analysis of the November 3 by-elections has naturally focused on the results, and what they can tell us – if anything – about voting trends in the 2020 general election.
After more than two years of uncertainty, the government has committed to establishing a National Land Law in line with the principles of the widely lauded National Land Use Policy.
BY Eva Hirschi
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BY AFP
A flood of precursor chemicals into Myanmar is fuelling record meth production as the drug trade spills out across Asia-Pacific.
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Observer groups judge the November 3 polls as largely transparent and fair but decry the lack of electoral reform.
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