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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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။
BY Moh Moh Thaw
Dressing up like a Yangon traffic cop for Halloween was, if anything, an act of respect.
The Shan State hill retreat hopes to lure more visitors with symbols of its colonial past, but Kalaw’s real appeal lies in its present-day diversity.
BY Ben Dunant
The repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh that was supposed to get underway on November 15 was always destined to fail given the present conditions in northern Rakhine State.
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In the last five years Myanmar's motorcycle community has kicked into high gear.
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