For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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In a cruel chain reaction, some Moken youth have ended up working for the fishing fleets that are destroying the ecosystem that supported them over generations.
BY AFP
Despite having one of the lowest ratios of vehicles to people, Myanmar has one of the highest road accident fatality rates in Southeast Asia.
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BY RJ Vogt
For one young woman, a train ride in Mon State in 2004 was the beginning of a 13-year ordeal as a human trafficking victim who was sold twice to lonely men in China.
BY Thi Kha
For one young woman, a train ride in Mon State in 2004 was the beginning of 13 years of misery as a human trafficking victim who was sold twice to lonely men in China.
BY Thi Kha
The lack of a unified message from the UN has weakened its influence on the government in the Rakhine conflict.
After a thrashing at the hands of Vitaly Bigdash in January, Myanmar’s MMA hero has a shot at redemption in what may be his last chance to become middleweight champion.
BY RJ Vogt
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