The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An enterprising woman turns a life-long passion for horses into an award-winning business on the shore of Inle Lake.
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Though rooted in old beliefs about a primordial realm of serpents, snake temples, or mway paya, are a growing phenomenon in Myanmar.
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Myanmar's army chief has given a rare foreign media interview to insist there was no proof the military persecuted the Rohingya community.
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တရားလွှတ်တော်ရှေ့နေ ဦးကိုနီနှင့် အငှားယာဉ်မောင်း ကိုနေဝင်းတို့ အသက်ခံရသည့်အမှုအား စစ်ဆေး စီရင်ခဲ့ရာတွင် အထူးခုံရုံးက ဥပဒေနှင့်အညီ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်ဟု တရားရုံးတာဝန်ရှိသူတစ်ဦးက ပြောကြားသည်
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One of the nation’s biggest madrassas is thriving in a Sagaing Region town where it was built on land donated by a Buddhist.
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The only surprising thing about the failure of payment service provider Red Dot was the apparent suddenness with which the company departed.
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