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.
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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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Lawmakers have accused the Yangon Region government of failing to disclose information to parliament amid suggestions of a power struggle within the National League for Democracy.
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Deadly conditions, understaffing and sub-standard equipment is all in the line of duty for members of the Myanmar Fire Services Department.
BY Hein Ko Soe
Regional ministers deliver an unconvincing performance at a press conference to discuss the Yangon government’s achievements in its first year — two months after the government’s first anniversary.
Artist Arker Kyaw found notoriety in 2012 with a mural of Barack Obama and more recently has been expressing life’s struggles on canvas with a pet fish as his muse.
Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.
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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