For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးအတွင်း ပြေးဆွဲနေသည့် ဘတ်စ်စကားများ စုပေါင်းပြေးဆွဲသည့် စနစ်သို့ စတင်ပြောင်းလဲသည့် ယနေ့ ဇန်နဝါရီ ၁၆ ရက်နေ့တွင်ပင် ခရီးသွားပြည်သူများအများစုမှာ ၎င်းတို့စီးမည့် ဘတ်စ်ကား စီးနိုင်ရေးအတွက် အခက်အခဲများ စတင်ရင်ဆိုင်နေကြရသည်။
BY Hein Ko Soe
Led by Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, the government is trying to solve the complex issues in the restive region, but is hindered by international criticism and an unwavering attitude by the old guard toward the state’s Muslim community.
The military junta might have been replaced by a democratically-elected government, but defamation cases are on the rise; and a controversial clause in the 2013 Telecommunications Law is to blame.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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BY AFP
The ideal place to start would be a review of the cabinet and the replacement of ministers who are not up to scratch.
The government permitted a select group of journalists to make a supervised visit to Maungdaw Township last month but conflicting accounts about what happened there pose a challenge to determining the facts.
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