An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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Singer Khin Maung Htoo is campaigning for the return of valuable properties in Yangon that were taken by the socialist government from his adoptive father – including the United Nations headquarters beside Kandawgyi Lake.
Khin Maung Htoo is campaigning for the return of valuable properties in Yangon taken by the socialist government from his adoptive father – including the UN headquarters beside Kandawgyi Lake.
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A provision in the constitution and a civil service manual are obstacles to transparency in governance because they restrict journalists covering the nation’s hluttaws from accessing information in the public interest.
Pope Francis has a duty to address injustice, but he also has a duty of care to Catholics across Myanmar, and has to consider the effect of his words on the people of his faith.
Some villages in central Myanmar are inhabited by the descendants of thousands of Portuguese, who were settled in the area by a kindly Taungoo dynasty king.
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