Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
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The public profile of one of Myanmar’s best-known – and perhaps most controversial – tycoons has been on the rise, a development broadly welcomed by the business community.
ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ကန်တော်ကြီးကန်စောင်းက ကန်တော်ကြီးပဲလေ့စ်ဟိုတယ် မီးလောင်မှုမှာ နှစ်ဦးသေဆုံးခဲ့ပါတယ်
BY Su Myat Mon
Failure will undermine confidence in the government’s ability to deliver on major projects.
Yangon’s regional government hopes that a new water bus service on the city’s rivers will go some way to alleviating the city’s traffic woes.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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