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
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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY Ye Myo Hein
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British development agency DFID has suspended funding for a timber industry reform project because of the Rakhine crisis.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
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Women play important roles in Myanmar, but often in the background. Two new books put the spotlight on some unassuming but far from ordinary women.
BY Eva Hirschi
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BY Ye Mon
A quick guide to the International Criminal Court and what its investigation over the exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh might mean for Myanmar.
The news that the European Union is considering revoking trade privileges for Myanmar due to alleged Tatmadaw atrocities in Rakhine State has provoked near-universal condemnation.
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