Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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Myanmar’s English newspaper of record has outlasted the jailing of one of its founders for contrived offences, a suffocating censorship regime not lifted until 2012 and a controversial early connection with the junta. It may not outlast its current management.
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Infighting has increasingly defined the labour movement since trade unions were legalised in 2012 and a recent election has further divided this already fractious area of local civil society.
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Frontier sits down with Yoma Strategic's head of real estate to discuss the Landmark project in downtown Yangon and the current state of the property market.
BY Oliver Slow
Media freedom has made less progress under the NLD government than its predecessor, a situation that has caused huge disappointment in newsrooms throughout the country.
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