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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Frontier speaks to Sudhir Shetty, the World Bank chief economist for East Asia and the Pacific, about Myanmar's new Investment Law.
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While often the military’s version of Myanmar's history was laughable, in other cases it has been widely absorbed.
In the remote mountains of Kachin State, a crack force holds on to a strategic outpost in the face of heavy Tatmadaw offensives aimed at cutting the KIA territory into two sections.
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A brief introduction to the Burmese royal legacy, from the 'King of the World' before the existence of Buddha, to the fall of Mandalay.
Former UN chief Mr Kofi Annan has expressed "deep concern" over violence in Myanmar's Rakhine state where the military killed dozens of people over the weekend.
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