An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos among the humanitarian community and its beneficiaries in Myanmar and Thailand.
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An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos among the humanitarian community and its beneficiaries in Myanmar and Thailand.
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Min Aung Hlaing has been thrown a lifeline by China and is now under pressure to show results, but his planned election is growing less feasible by the day.
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Regime authorities appear to be increasingly abducting young men on the street or during household inspections to boost the number of military conscripts, while families and activists say bribes are no longer enough to free them.
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Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.
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The Burmese dream finds expression in the late Thu Maung’s classic song “Nagani” but its message is about more than pride and patriotism and is critical for the nation’s future.
Evidence is emerging that a shadowy group of “patriots” nostalgic for junta rule is exploiting religion in the hope of creating a national emergency that would justify a Tatmadaw takeover.
ရန်ကုန်မှာ အဓိက ခံစားနေရတဲ့ ပြဿနာတွေ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ရေကြီးရေလျှံတာ၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး မလုံလောက်တာ၊ ကားကြပ်တာ၊ ဘာသာရေး၊ လူမျိုးရေးလှုံ့ဆော်မှုတွေ၊ အမုန်းစကား ပြောနေမှုတွေနဲ့ နေ့စဉ် လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး ခက်ခဲမှုတွေ၊ အလုပ်သမားပြဿနာတွေ စသည်ဖြင့် များလှတဲ့အရေးတွေကို တနှစ်ကျော်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ဘာတွေများ လုပ်ပြီးနေပြီလဲ၊ ဘာတွေ ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ ရှိသလဲဆိုတာ စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာကောင်းလှပါတယ်။
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