Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.
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Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.
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With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.
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After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.
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An American man has been arrested for allegedly running an online brothel service matching men in northern Thailand with Myanmar sex workers across the border.
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The Central Bank is steering the bank lending model away from overdraft loans with immovable assets as collateral in order to make financing more widely available.
A new report has said that Schedule Two of the 2008 constitution is where the “big debates” about Myanmar’s future converge, and that the section is key to opening discussions about amending the controversial charter.
Development in the Kayin hills might be an exploitative, foreign-owned playground for the rich, but it is progress all the same.
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Coffee is catching on as a cash crop in the Shan hills, helped by programmes aimed at raising quality and finding international buyers.
A village administrator has been sacked for refusing to take legal action against villagers in an increasingly nasty dispute involving a Kayin State quarry, an Asian Development Bank-funded road project and a Border Guard Force.
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