An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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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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A nun, an artist, a lawyer and a leading member of the business community talk to Frontier about their lives and work to mark International Women’s Day.
A new plan developed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation with input from international conservation groups aims to ensure that Myanmar’s wild elephants are not lost to history.
BY Hein Ko Soe
There is great potential for a more systematic inclusion of women within Myanmar’s national development plans.
BY Thomas Kring
A nun, an artist, a lawyer and a leading member of the business community talk to Frontier about their lives and work to mark International Women’s Day.
A new plan developed with input from international conservation groups aims to ensure that Myanmar’s wild elephants are not lost to history.
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The resettlement in Yangon of Kaman from Rakhine State has the USDP worrying about an influx of ‘legal and illegal immigrants’ in the commercial capital.
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