The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing discrimination in Myanmar’s commercial capital.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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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Utility cuts and a China-driven regional crackdown have dealt a blow to online gambling and scam operations on the Thai-Myanmar border, but a series of workarounds have kept the notorious industry going.
BY Frontier
A United Nations investigation into Myanmar on Wednesday urged the country's military rulers to end forced labour in the army and to halt all violence against trade unionists.
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Myanmar's junta announced Sunday it had begun a pilot census in 20 townships across the divided country, a move critics say will be used to increase surveillance of opponents.
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