A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
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A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
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Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.
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Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
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The Burmah Oil Company was the target of one of the biggest strikes of the colonial era. Today, union leaders say oil industry workers continue to be exploited.
BY Htun Khaing
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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.
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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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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.
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The lack of a unified message from the UN has weakened its influence on the government in the Rakhine conflict.
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