The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
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The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
BY Frontier
As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
BY Frontier
Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
BY Frontier
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The last food rations for more than 8,000 IDPs will run out at the end of September and many are apprehensive about government resettlement plans.
Farmers are beginning to reap the benefits of the rapid growth in mobile phone use in Myanmar through apps that are providing them with a wealth of information.
BY Sing Lee
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The death of Linkin Park lead singer Chester Bennington in late July saw an outpouring of grief across Myanmar, where the band enjoyed huge popularity.
The composition of Bogyoke Aung San’s pre-independence cabinet was a reflection of his belief that prejudice and intolerance should have no place in an independent Burma.
BY Htun Khaing
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တပ်မတော်ဟာ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်လာရင် အထူးသတိထားစောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ရဲ့ အဝန်းအဝိုင်းနဲ့ မီဒီယာအပေါ် ကန့်သတ်ချက်ကိုလည်း တဖြည်းဖြည်း ချဲ့လာတာ တွေ့ရပေမယ့် အခုတော့ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဒီလိုထိလွယ်ရှလွယ်ဖြစ်လာတာ တပ်မတော်တခုတည်း မဟုတ်တော့ဘူးလို့ ပြောရမလို ဖြစ်လာပါပြီ။
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