An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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A sharp rise in reported rapes has been blamed on the absence of a single, comprehensive law aimed at giving greater protection to women.
BY Su Myat Mon
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British development agency DFID has suspended funding for a timber industry reform project because of the Rakhine crisis.
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Women play important roles in Myanmar, but often in the background. Two new books put the spotlight on some unassuming but far from ordinary women.
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A quick guide to the International Criminal Court and what its investigation over the exodus of Rohingya to Bangladesh might mean for Myanmar.
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