Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
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A video of goods being unloaded from a train making an unscheduled stop at night on Yangon’s outskirts has focused renewed attention on Myanmar’s massive black market – a problem the Tatmadaw could help to solve, if it wanted to.
A video of goods being unloaded from a train making an unscheduled stop at night on Yangon’s outskirts has focused new attention on Myanmar’s massive black market.
Illegal immigration from Bangladesh has been a sensitive issue for decades in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, where the crisis over Rakhine State is being followed with interest … and some trepidation.
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Briefly showcased by the former military regime in the late 1990s, work has resumed at the Nyaung-gan archaeological site in Sagaing Region in recent years.
Briefly showcased by the former military regime in the late 1990s, work has resumed at the Nyaung-gan archaeological site in Sagaing Region in recent years.
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