In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.
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In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.
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In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.
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Kan Htoo Aung has been disabled from birth but an indefatigable spirit has enabled him to overcome his handicap and devote his life to helping others.
BY Su Myat Mon
တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး ပစ်ခတ်ခိုက်တိုက်မှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက် (NCA) အား လက်မှတ်မထိုးထားရသေးသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုကော်မတီ (FPNCC) အနေဖြင့် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရေးကိစ္စ ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ကေအိုင်အို) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဂွမ်မော်က ပြောကြားသည်။
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The jade industry at Hpakant in Kachin State is a multi-billion-dollar business in which risk flows downhill, from the company bosses to the mid-level traders and, at the bottom, the itinerant miners known as yemase who risk their lives each day in the hope of striking it rich.
BY Daniel Combs
At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.
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Ethnic leaders and negotiators say that the government and military have blocked discussion of key political and economic issues at the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference that opened today in Nay Pyi Taw.
Use of modern contraception has increased significantly in Myanmar over the past decade but condoms use remains low because of perceived links to sex work and pre-marital intercourse.
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