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.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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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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After announcing high-profile gas-fired power projects earlier this year, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy is now focusing on a string of hydropower dams – most with Western developers – to meet Myanmar’s growing energy needs.
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Legal changes are urgently needed to protect sex workers from violence and abuse, say activists, but political sensitivities may be delaying reform.
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သတင်းထောက်တစ်ဦးရဲ့အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေရာကနေ ထောင်ဒဏ် ၁၄ နှစ်အထိ ချမှတ်နိုင်တဲ့အမှုကို ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက် ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ဇနီးသည်ဖြစ်သူတို့က သူတို့ရဲ့သမီးဦးလေးဟာ မိသားစုအတွက် ကံကောင်းခြင်းတွေ ဆောင်ယူလာလိမ့်မယ့်လို့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြပါတယ်။
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For the second installment in our travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we head to Taunggyi and Heho for pastoral tranquility, orange toenails and a transcendent sunset swim.
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