Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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As the crisis in Rakhine grabs headlines, little attention is being paid to blocked aid deliveries, displacement and indiscriminate attacks on civilians in Kachin and northern Shan states.
There’s intense competition among top-selling Chinese handset makers for a bigger slice of the Myanmar market, but don’t even think about asking them for sales figures.
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Police are yet to determine the son of a former government minister's motivation for collecting such a heavy arsenal of weapons.
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The public profile of one of Myanmar’s best-known – and perhaps most controversial – tycoons has been on the rise, a development broadly welcomed by the business community.
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