Cash-strapped schools on the border are struggling to accommodate children fleeing war and poverty in Myanmar, while teachers in the Civil Disobedience Movement who fled to Thailand have to work in fields and factories due to lack of support.
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Cash-strapped schools on the border are struggling to accommodate children fleeing war and poverty in Myanmar, while teachers in the Civil Disobedience Movement who fled to Thailand have to work in fields and factories due to lack of support.
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Recent construction on militarised islands off Myanmar has sent the media into a tizzy, but despite rampant speculation, experts say it’s unlikely China is behind it, though India may still have cause for concern.
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Following the devastation of Cyclone Mocha, the Arakan Army says it will work with the military regime to help people in Rakhine, but that cooperative spirit appears to be one-sided, with the junta still facing accusations of holding up aid for political purposes.
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ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်းတံတားအမည်ပေးမှုကို ကန့်ကွက်ရာမှာ ဦးဆောင်ပါဝင်ခဲ့တဲ့ မွန်ဒေသလုံးဆိုင်ရာ ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့ချုပ်ပါတီဝင် မွန်ပြည်နယ် လွှတ်တော် ဒုတိယဥက္ကဋ္ဌကို တာဝန်ကနေ ရုပ်သိမ်းဖို့ စီစဉ်နေတယ်ဆိုတဲ့ သတင်းတွေ ထွက်ပေါ်နေပါတယ်။
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Despite soaring fees, enrolments are growing at Yangon’s international schools as parents seek a pathway to a prestigious foreign university for their children.
After a long career in Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs, Mr Brendan Rogers took up the post of ambassador to Thailand and Myanmar in 2014, presenting his credentials to President U Htin Kyaw in April 2016.
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As Myanmar experiences a construction boom, those who are building the country’s new structures have few protections if something goes wrong.
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Non-communicable diseases such as diabetes, cancer and alcoholism cause the most death and suffering in Myanmar, but with causes as numerous as they are complex, it requires more than doctors to treat them.
A conservation camp for elephants who lost their jobs because of a logging ban in the Bago ranges has become a refuge for two young calves left motherless by poachers and disease.
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