An amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Thailand offers hope for many Myanmar workers operating in the shadows, but the costs are high, and migrants then face burdensome tax demands from the Myanmar junta.
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An amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Thailand offers hope for many Myanmar workers operating in the shadows, but the costs are high, and migrants then face burdensome tax demands from the Myanmar junta.
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There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.
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Bangladesh’s interim government has lobbied successfully for an international conference on the Rohingya. But for repatriation to have any chance of moving forward, organisers need to consider the rise of the Arakan Army.
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The Myanmar junta is using transportation blockades put in place during fighting with the KNDF to stop emergency aid from reaching areas of the state
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A journey from the Chin hills to the Sagaing plains with arms dealers and rebel commanders reveals the turmoil of Myanmar’s civil war – and the steep price of victory.
Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta.
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Frontier reporter Naw Betty Han remembers a friend and fellow exiled Myanmar journalist who died on October 5 in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.
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Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.
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Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.
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Death, detention and dissolution have decimated Daw Aung San Suu Kyi's political party, easing the way for groups backed by Myanmar's ruling military to claim victory at elections expected next year, analysts say.
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A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah State reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team of medics to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.
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Myanmar will send a representative to a regional summit this week for the first time in three years, a diplomatic source told Agence France-Presse Tuesday, as the junta struggles to quell a civil war.
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