Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.
BY Esther Wah
Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.
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The United Kingdom is lending a hand on a project that will assess the condition of the state-of-the-art sewerage system it built in Rangoon during the colonial era.
Most tourists come to Thanbyuzayat – the terminus of the Thai-Burma railway – for its war cemetery and museum, but traces of the Japanese occupation can also be discovered in the mountains surrounding the town.
BY Thomas Kean
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A government decision to resettle Kaman from Rakhine IDP camps in Yangon has focused attention on the discrimination they experience, despite being eligible for full citizenship.
BY Su Myat Mon
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For the 700,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled to southeast Bangladesh in the past nine months, the approaching monsoon season poses a serious threat.
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More than five decades of government propaganda and draconian censorship in Myanmar has contributed to a culture of denial.
Rosalie Metro deftly explores some of the key issues confronting Myanmar in her debut novel Have Fun in Burma.
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