Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
BY Frontier
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
BY Frontier
Myanmar’s earthquake has left the regime’s already shaky administration reeling, with thousands of its staff in the capital now living in temporary shelters and complaining of limited assistance from their masters.
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Many striking public sector workers are seeking employment abroad amid a prolonged economic crisis, but the junta is blocking them from leaving and even offering them their jobs back.
BY Frontier
Myanmar nationals are flocking to the Chinese border – risking scams, exploitation and arrest in search of jobs – but limited border crossings and fierce competition mean many leave empty-handed and deeper in poverty.
BY Frontier
In recent years, the international community has accelerated efforts to crack down on the global waste trade – a harmful business that allows the rich to prey on the poor – but a lack of enforcement and a number of loopholes keep the trade afloat.
BY Frontier
Bamboo and sheet-metal shelters lie ruined in the hills of northern Myanmar’s Kachin State after a deadly strike on a camp housing displaced people that a local armed group says was carried out by the military.
BY AFP
Standing beside his cargo of Thai fruit and furniture, truck driver Ko Cho steels himself for a journey to Myanmar's Yangon that will demand bribes, dodging landslides and navigating a raging civil war.
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Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway around the world.
BY Frontier
Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in Kachin State, a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army, which controls the area, told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
BY AFP
Many of those taken prisoner by Myanmar’s military regime disappear without a trace, leaving their desperate partners and family members to navigate a cruel and complex bureaucracy rife with corruption.
BY Frontier
Forty years ago, Myanmar barmaid Daw Dar San Ye stood in a river running through Yangon, squaring up to a North Korean agent gripping a live grenade.
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