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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Five residents of a Rakhine State village have served time in jail amid a bitter dispute over an ancient monastery that has split the community.
BY Su Myat Mon
Factories in residential areas that cause air pollution and foul odours are making life a misery for some city and outer urban residents in Yangon Region.
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Toddy palms are in sharp decline, a trend that’s affecting production of the confectionary known as jaggery as well as the illegal tipple popular in rural areas.
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With an offshore oil and gas tender on the horizon, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy says it is reviewing the fiscal terms in its production sharing contracts to make the country more internationally competitive.
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