With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.
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With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.
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After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.
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A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.
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Women who were jailed for supporting the struggle for democratic change in Myanmar deserve more recognition for what they endured.
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Thirty years ago, more than a million people took to the streets of Myanmar to demand freedom: freedom from dictatorship and freedom from poverty.
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A group of Buddhists who moved to northern Rakhine State have been forced off the land where they had hoped to build new lives.
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