Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Years of effort to rebuild trust in the banking sector after the crippling 2003 financial crisis have been wasted due to the military’s seizure of power and its manipulation of the Central Bank.
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With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
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Yangon and Hong Kong have taken different approaches to preserving heritage architecture but experts in both cities agree that conservation and development need not be mutually exclusive.
BY Natalie Wong
A former prison official has broken his silence on the deaths of more than 40 student activists in March 1988, six months before that year’s fateful national uprising was crushed by a military coup.
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Cockfighting is thriving in Myanmar but remains a clandestine activity because of prohibitions on betting.
As developers cry foul and warn of bankruptcy, officials in Yangon have defended decisions to chop storeys off some high-rise projects as being in the interests of the city’s orderly development.
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