Since health authorities introduced stay-at-home orders for Yangon in September, informal workers and small business owners have faced a grim struggle to make ends meet amid a lack of government assistance.
Since health authorities introduced stay-at-home orders for Yangon in September, informal workers and small business owners have faced a grim struggle to make ends meet amid a lack of government assistance.
The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.
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The suspension of mobile internet in parts of Rakhine State has not stopped local reporting on the conflict, but the toll taken on the welfare of ordinary people is considerable.
မိုးလေဝသပညာရှင် ဒေါက်တာ ဦးထွန်းလွင်၏ ဈာပနခရီးအား ၎င်းကိုချစ်သူများက ယနေ့ညနေ ၄နာရီ တွင် လိုက်ပါပို့ဆောင်ခဲ့ကြသည်။
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Competition is finally coming to the aviation fuel business, with up to three companies planning to take on a state-backed monopoly and (possibly) deliver cheaper airfares for travellers.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော် (အေအေ)အဖွဲ့က ဖမ်းဆီးထားသော အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးဝှေ့တင်းကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးစေလိုကြောင်း ဇနီးဖြစ်သူ ဒေါ်ခင်အိဆင့်က နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၄ ရက်တွင် တောင်းဆိုသည်။
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Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.
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