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.
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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.
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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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Myanmar under military rule was synonymous with political prisoners.
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Under military rule, Myanmar developed a system that was a fusion of cronyism and militarism, and as a result the economy has come to be dominated by corruption and rent seeking.
BY Naing Ko Ko
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said he heard unimaginable accounts of atrocities during a visit to Bangladesh's refugee camps and called for Myanmar to be held responsible.
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Frontier interns Khine Me Me Win and Season Myo Kyaw ask Yangon residents for their views on health and education reform since the transition to civilian rule: what has changed, what has worked and what still needs to be done.
The quest among "amber hunters" for the discovery of dinosaur remains captivates palaeontologists but also fuels a decades-long conflict in Kachin State.
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In late March, I was part of a contingent of journalists who travelled to Chin State, to cover a community-based tourism project that was being launched at Taisun village, Falam Township.
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