Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
BY Frontier
The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.
BY Esther Wah
Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.
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As developers cry foul and warn of bankruptcy, officials in Yangon have defended decisions to chop storeys off some high-rise projects.
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.
Time is running out for an international moratorium on new fossil-fuel power plants. Myanmar needs to take notice.
The government has largely put labour reform on the backburner at a time when worker rights advocates say there’s an urgent need to improve dispute settlement procedures.
Women who are victims of abusive husbands face cultural and legal barriers if they want to file for a divorce or lodge a criminal complaint.
BY Myanmar Now
The new government wants their actions to do the talking, but rumour and speculation will prevail if Myanmar's leaders don't speak to the people.
The media-shy Renaissance Institute, a think-tank, prefers to keep a low profile but has had high-level influence on the National League for Democracy’s long-awaited economic policy.
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