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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၁၆ ရာစုက ထင်ရှားခဲ့သော မြန်မာဘုရင်တစ်ပါး ကြွချီရာလမ်းကြောင်းအတိုင်း စက်ဘီးစီးနင်းသည့် ခရီးစဉ်သစ်တစ်ခုသည် ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းအတွက် အလုပ်အကိုင်များ ပိုမိုဖန်တီးရန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံ၏အကြီးမားဆုံး ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့ကို ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသရန် ရည်ရွယ်သော ခရီးစဉ်ဖြစ်သည်။
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Sharp differences between the government on one side and Rakhine leaders and the Tatmadaw on the other are an obstacle to resolving the situation.
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At least 92 people are now dead since violence began on Friday, according to an official government death toll.
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The perils of covering a football match when you don't know what football is.
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