Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.
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Despite soaring fees, enrolments are growing at Yangon’s international schools as parents seek a pathway to a prestigious foreign university for their children.
Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and alcoholism cause the most death and suffering in Myanmar, but with causes as numerous as they are complex, it requires more than doctors to treat them.
A conservation camp for elephants who lost their jobs because of a logging ban in the Bago ranges has become a refuge for two young calves left motherless by poachers and disease.
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BY Su Myat Mon
With one in five kids aged 10-17 in work, Myanmar is one of the worst countries in the world for child labour.
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Ambassador Brendan Rogers speaks to Frontier about his time as Ireland's envoy to Myanmar and this week's St. Patrick's Day celebrations.
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After a long career in Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Brendan Rogers took up the post of ambassador to Thailand and Myanmar in 2014, presenting his credentials to President U Htin Kyaw in April 2016.
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As Myanmar experiences a construction boom, those who are building the country’s new structures have few protections if something goes wrong.
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