Through a budding police and court system, the resistance is confronting a crime wave in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, but limited resources have left them struggling to please all residents.
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Through a budding police and court system, the resistance is confronting a crime wave in Myanmar’s Dry Zone, but limited resources have left them struggling to please all residents.
BY Frontier
Trapped in an economic mess of its own making, Myanmar’s military regime is seeking to recoup drops in revenue through new tax measures – with seemingly limited success so far.
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Under sanctions and desperate for hard currency, the military regime is forcing Myanmar workers abroad to remit earnings through formal channels, with some warning it will only push more migrants to become undocumented.
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By AFP Myanmar’s military seized power on February 1, ousting the civilian government and arresting its leaders. More than 900 people have since been killed.
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A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
BY Frontier
Junta authorities in Myanmar are seeking help from the international community to tackle the coronavirus, state-owned media said Wednesday, as the country looks beyond China in its struggle to beat back a new wave.
BY AFP
Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.
BY Frontier
Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
BY Frontier
The United States on Friday renewed calls on Myanmar's junta to free a jailed US journalist as concerns grow about a Covid-19 outbreak in prisons packed with detained activists.
BY AFP
China has supplied over 10,000 Covid vaccines to the Kachin Independence Army, which operates near China's southern border, the KIA spokesman said Saturday, as Beijing seeks to halt the influx of cases from Myanmar.
BY AFP
The World Bank has warned in a new report that Myanmar faces severe economic losses and a doubling of poverty as a result of the combined impact of the coup and COVID-19, with the military regime unable to govern effectively.
BY Frontier
A batch of Chinese Covid-19 vaccines arrived in Myanmar on Thursday, an AFP reporter said, the country battles a devastating new surge in cases.
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