A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
BY Frontier
A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.
BY Frontier
The military regime is set to drop meaningful structural reforms from an economic recovery plan initiated by the former National League for Democracy government, and is instead promising to slash red tape in a bid to shore up collapsing business confidence.
BY Frontier
A split in the Tatmadaw has until now been considered unlikely but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.
BY Ye Myo Hein
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There are nearly half a million squatters living in and around Yangon, most of whom are unaffected by power blackouts because they have never been connected to the grid.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
Face of Indawgyi is working with local and international partners to encourage sustainable tourism development at Kachin State’s Indawgyi Lake.
Myanmar and Cambodia have two of the world’s most outstanding ancient Buddhist sites and they are among the top tourist destinations in each country – but Angkor Wat attracts almost eight times as many foreign visitors each year.
BY Su Myat Mon
There are nearly half a million squatters living in and around Yangon, most of whom are unaffected by power blackouts because they have never been connected to the country’s creaking grid.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
After a recent lull in refugee arrivals, Bangladesh has seen another influx from northern Rakhine State.
BY Oliver Slow
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