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.
BY Frontier
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.
BY Frontier
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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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။
BY Ye Mon
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.
A brief explainer about how Burmese names are decided.
BY Sharon Pun
On July 9, Frontier published an article on recent conflict in Kayin State, “Missing pieces on Myanmar’s ceasefire chessboard”.
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The national anti-corruption body is investigating a Yangon court’s decision to drop charges against three men accused of killing movie star Aung Ye Htwe.
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Myanmar citizens have the legal right to own a firearm but only a privileged few have licences and the Ministry of Home Affairs is coy about the matter.
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