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.
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.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
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Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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The Social Security Board has accumulated a K240 billion fund that it wants to spend on improving its efficiency and upgrading its healthcare services.
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Senior General Min Aung Hlaing said the UN had no right to interfere in Myanmar's sovereignty, after UN investigators called for army leaders to be prosecuted for genocide.
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Elderly tatooed Chin women in Rakhine State welcome tourists as a source of income, but visitors and guides fear a “human zoo”.
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