The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
BY Sam Foot
The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
BY Sam Foot
Seizing Myanmar’s borders with Bangladesh and India has become central to the Arakan Army’s dream of autonomy and has driven its strategy during times of war and peace.
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An increasing number of Myanmar people are selling kidneys as a quick-fix solution to poverty and debt, with many donors going to India for transplants and telling lies to have them approved.
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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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For millions of smallholder farmers in Myanmar, a deadline has passed.
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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.
A poor community cites decades of land dispossession and environmental degradation in their opposition to a Thai-operated tin mine in rural Dawei Township.
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