The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
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Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
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Legal changes are urgently needed to protect sex workers from violence and abuse, say activists, but political sensitivities may be delaying reform.
BY Su Myat Mon
သတင်းထောက်တစ်ဦးရဲ့အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေရာကနေ ထောင်ဒဏ် ၁၄ နှစ်အထိ ချမှတ်နိုင်တဲ့အမှုကို ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက် ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ဇနီးသည်ဖြစ်သူတို့က သူတို့ရဲ့သမီးဦးလေးဟာ မိသားစုအတွက် ကံကောင်းခြင်းတွေ ဆောင်ယူလာလိမ့်မယ့်လို့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြပါတယ်။
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For the second installment in our travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we head to Taunggyi and Heho for pastoral tranquility, orange toenails and a transcendent sunset swim.
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