The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
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The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
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An escalation in fighting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Tatmadaw near the town of Mong Ko on the China border has emptied villages, while inflaming longstanding tensions over who controls the area.
As military repression ramps up, some trade unions and activists are calling on brands to boycott Myanmar’s garment sector – but not everyone believes the campaign will hit its intended target.
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The last food rations for more than 8,000 IDPs will run out at the end of September and many are apprehensive about government resettlement plans.
Farmers are beginning to reap the benefits of the rapid growth in mobile phone use in Myanmar through apps that are providing them with a wealth of information.
BY Sing Lee
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The death of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington in late July saw an outpouring of grief across Myanmar, where the band enjoyed huge popularity.
The composition of Bogyoke Aung San’s pre-independence cabinet was a reflection of his belief that prejudice and intolerance should have no place in an independent Burma.
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တပ်မတော်ဟာ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်လာရင် အထူးသတိထားစောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ရဲ့ အဝန်းအဝိုင်းနဲ့ မီဒီယာအပေါ် ကန့်သတ်ချက်ကိုလည်း တဖြည်းဖြည်း ချဲ့လာတာ တွေ့ရပေမယ့် အခုတော့ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဒီလိုထိလွယ်ရှလွယ်ဖြစ်လာတာ တပ်မတော်တခုတည်း မဟုတ်တော့ဘူးလို့ ပြောရမလို ဖြစ်လာပါပြီ။
A former ASEAN secretary general offers a personal perspective on how the bloc needs to change in order to build on the achievements of its first 50 years.
တင်းကျပ်လှသည့် အစဉ်အလာဖြင့် ချည်နှောင်ထားသော မန္တလေး ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနယ်ပယ်မှ တစ်ခုတည်းသော ပုဂ္ဂလိက အနုပညာကျောင်းတွင် ပန်းချီပန်းပုပညာရှင် ဆူးမြင့်သိန်းသည် တီထွင်ဖန်တီးမှုရှိသော အနုပညာလက်ရာများကို ကျောင်းသားများ ခုံမင်နှစ်သက်လာအောင် အကူအညီပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။
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