Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.
BY Esther Wah
Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.
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Ooredoo is set to launch its mobile money platform M-Pitesan next month after recently receiving a mobile financial services licence. Acting chief executive officer Mr Vikram Sinha tells Frontier’s Thomas Kean about what users can expect, the importance of interoperability with other mobile money provider and how the company plans to roll out the service.
BY Thomas Kean
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The government’s policy options for Rakhine are a choice between a Tatmadaw strategy focused on the 1982 Citizenship Law or implementing recommendations in the final report by the Annan commission.
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Myanmar’s Enemy Within is a highly readable exploration of the darkest aspect of the transition, from communal violence to hate speech and the politics of exclusion.
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Groups seeking the repeal of 66(d) are disappointed with the refusal of the NLD to allow its MPs to freely debate recent amendments to the Telecommunications Law.
If the Tatmadaw wants to show it’s sincere, it should issue a public commitment to no longer use these unjust laws in the first place.
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