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.
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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Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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The question of citizenship for Muslims in Rakhine State is one of the government’s toughest challenges – and a potential flashpoint for unrest and political instability.
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The nationalist monks have opened a Yangon school that teaches students how to become ‘decent citizens’ who protect Myanmar’s majority race and Buddhist religion.
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An embezzlement probe has been launched after nearly $100 million vanished from a fund set up by Myanmar's gem companies, raising corruption fears.
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Frontier speaks to U Kyaw Hla Aung, a renowned Rohingya leader, former lawyer and political prisoner.
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