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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တပ်မတော်ဟာ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်လာရင် အထူးသတိထားစောင့်ကြည့်နေပြီး သူတို့ရဲ့ အဝန်းအဝိုင်းနဲ့ မီဒီယာအပေါ် ကန့်သတ်ချက်ကိုလည်း တဖြည်းဖြည်း ချဲ့လာတာ တွေ့ရပေမယ့် အခုတော့ မီဒီယာနဲ့ပတ်သက်ပြီး ဒီလိုထိလွယ်ရှလွယ်ဖြစ်လာတာ တပ်မတော်တခုတည်း မဟုတ်တော့ဘူးလို့ ပြောရမလို ဖြစ်လာပါပြီ။
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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The argument that gender inequality is not an issue in Myanmar is simply not borne out by the facts on the ground.
A former ASEAN secretary general offers a personal perspective on how the bloc needs to change in order to build on the achievements of its first 50 years.
တင်းကျပ်လှသည့် အစဉ်အလာဖြင့် ချည်နှောင်ထားသော မန္တလေး ယဉ်ကျေးမှုနယ်ပယ်မှ တစ်ခုတည်းသော ပုဂ္ဂလိက အနုပညာကျောင်းတွင် ပန်းချီပန်းပုပညာရှင် ဆူးမြင့်သိန်းသည် တီထွင်ဖန်တီးမှုရှိသော အနုပညာလက်ရာများကို ကျောင်းသားများ ခုံမင်နှစ်သက်လာအောင် အကူအညီပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။
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