Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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Myanma Timber Enterprise responds to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency alleging widespread corruption in the teak trade.
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Myanma Timber Enterprise responds to a report by the Environmental Investigation Agency alleging widespread corruption in the teak trade.
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ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ကျင်းပမည့် စည်ပင်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲသည့် ဒီမိုကရေစီစနစ်အတွက် စမ်းသပ်မှုတစ်ခုဖြစ်စေသလို အစိုးရကို လူထုနှင့် ပိုမိုနီးကပ်သွားစေလိမ့်မည်ဖြစ်သော်လည်း တချို့ကတော့ အလျင်စလို နိုင်လွန်းမည်လားဟု စိုးရိမ်နေကြသည်။
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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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