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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A small, dedicated team is doing its best to transform the country’s museums living repositories of history, but it faces many challenges from a ponderous bureaucracy.
The developer of a new night market at Mandalay Hill is upbeat about its prospects but residents and tourists say it will face challenges because it’s too far from the city centre.
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The fifth Human Rights Human Dignity International Film Festival was an insight into how far the country has progressed in its political transition.
BY Sing Lee
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Fossickers are resisting an order to leave a jade mining area in Sagaing Region, where a failed attempt to storm a company site last month left five men dead.
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