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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A foreign reporter’s journey through government bureaucracy, where no one is seemingly authorised to do anything.
BY Eva Hirschi
Bicycles are becoming a preferred transport solution in Yangon for commuters tired of traffic jams.
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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတစ်ဝှမ်းမှာ ပြုလုပ်ခဲ့တဲ့ ကြားဖြတ်ရွေးကောက်ပွဲမှာ မဲပေးဖို့အတွက် သမ္မတဦးဝင်းမြင့်အပါအဝင် မဲဆန္ဒရှင်ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာဟာ မဲရုံတွေကို နံနက် ၆ နာရီကနေ ညနေ ၄ နာရီအတွင်း သွားရောက်မဲပေးခဲ့ကြပါတယ်။ ပြည်တွင်း စောင့်ကြည့်ရေးအဖွဲ့တွေက မဲပေးမှုတွေမှာ ပြဿနာတစ်စုံတစ်ရာ မတွေ့ခဲ့ဘူးလို့ ပြောကြားခဲ့ကြပါတယ်
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BY Hein Ko Soe
Debate over the rescinding of honorary awards often reflects our own faults: our desire to create exaggerated images of our idols and our eagerness to judge them too soon.
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