The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
BY Frontier
Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
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An amended law governing vacant, fallow and virgin land threatens to turn millions of smallholder farmers into criminal trespassers.
BY Ben Dunant
The latest campaign against chewing betel follows indications that the deeply-ingrained national habit is becoming more popular, including among women.
BY Su Myat Mon
ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အလယ်ပိုင်းဒေသရှိ ကျေးရွာပေါင်း ၃ဝ တွင် ကိုယ်ဝန်ဆောင်နှင့် ၎င်းတို့မှမွေးဖွားလာသော အသက် ၂ နှစ်အောက် ကလေးငယ်များအား ငွေကြေး ထောက်ပံ့မှုအစီအစဉ်ဖြင့် ၂ဝ၁၄ ခုနှစ်မှာ စတင်ခဲ့သည့် တက်လမ်းအာဟာရစီမံချက်၏ အောင်မြင်မှုသည် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏အခြားဒေသများတွင်လည်း အလားတူအစီအစဉ်များအား အကောင်အထည်ဖော်ဆောင်ရေးအတွက် အစိုးရအား အထောက်အပံ့ကောင်း ဖြစ်စေခဲ့သည်။
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