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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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.
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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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