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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For many Myanmar businesses, religious rites and rituals are as standard as signing a lease or putting up a signboard – the benefits, though, are a matter of faith.
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The launch of treasury bond auctions by the government is a move toward more efficient public debt management that should result in lower inflation.
Police are allowing criminals to avoid prison by substituting others in their place, in a practice that observers say is undermining the integrity of the justice system and efforts to combat organised crime.
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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့သို့ ယနေ့ မွန်းတည့် ၁၂ နာရီခန့်က စတင်ကာ တပ်မတော်သားများ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီး နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး လုပ်ငန်းများကို အရှိန်မြှင့်တင် စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေပြီဖြစ်သည်။
A statement by 11 political parties calling for the dissolution of the Rakhine State Advisory Commission has elicited dismay and regret from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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မောင်တောမြို့တွင် ယနေ့ နံနက်က ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့နှင့် အကြမ်းဖက် အဖွဲ့အစည်းတို့အကြား တိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်ကိုးဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီးနောက် မောင်တောခရိုင်တခုလုံးအတွင်း ညမထွက်ရအချိန်ကို ယခင်ကထက် တင်းကြပ်လိုက်ပြီဖြစ်သည်။
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