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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Timber traders say Myanma Timber Enterprise is giving their industry a bad name and want it replaced with an independent agency tasked with ensuring compliance with international export standards.
BY Su Myat Mon
The communist victory in China in 1949 sent thousands of nationalist Kuomintang troops and their families fleeing into Shan State. Their stories of the war in the hills live on with relatives in Taiwan and Myanmar.
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The 1949 communist victory in China sent thousands of Kuomintang troops fleeing into Shan State. Their stories live on with relatives in Taiwan and Myanmar.
BY Ann Wang
Although malaria infections continue to fall, Myanmar and its neighbours remain a breeding ground for new and dangerous strains of the disease.
Myanmar needs to generate more electricity for household and industrial use but doing so will mean higher prices and could spark a consumer backlash against the government.
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Some of the “myths” that do the rounds in the education policy debate may not always be backed up by the facts.
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