An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
A dog-lover in Yangon has opened a refuge for almost 200 canines to take them off the streets – and, potentially, save them from being smuggled abroad.
BY Htun Khaing
The separation of Burma from British India is often overshadowed by a more violent partition 10 years later, but it was a moment that had a significant impact on this country’s modern history.
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State Counsellor’s Office spokesman U Zaw Htay tells Frontier about military activities in Maungdaw District in the wake of the August 25 attacks.
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BY Htun Khaing
For many people in Myanmar, respect of elders and people of higher social status is expected automatically, but this mindset is unlikely to be particularly useful for the country’s development.
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