Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
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Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
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Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers.
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Producer-emcee Kan Kyi draws on his roots to unite a diverse crew of emcees to say in Chiang Mai what often can’t be said in Myanmar.
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တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ ဦးကိုနီနှင့် အငှားယာဉ်မောင်း ကိုနေဝင်းတို့ အသက်ခံရသည့်အမှုအား စစ်ဆေး စီရင်ခဲ့ရာတွင် အထူးခုံရုံးက ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်ဟု တရားရုံးတာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောကြားသည်
BY Su Myat Mon
The only surprising thing about the failure of payment service provider Red Dot was the apparent suddenness with which the company departed.
It’s a difficult time to be a journalist in Myanmar and students at one of the country’s leading journalism institutes are aware of the challenges ahead as they seek to build careers in the media.
BY Veta Chan
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The building of a statue of General Aung San in Kayah State highlights the continued vulnerability of ethnic minority identity to domination by the majority Bamar.
Sand: it’s cheap, plentiful and essential for many construction projects. We take it for granted – if we even notice it at all.
Irresponsible sand mining in the Ayeyarwady River is destroying the livelihoods of farmers and fishers and placing environmental stress on the nation’s rice bowl.
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