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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Gruesome injuries, dangling eyeballs and dripping blood are among the creative repertoire of a small but growing number of special effects make-up artists working in the movie industry.
BY Thi Ri Han
The 21st Century Panglong conference is a symbolic step toward peace and national reconciliation, but huge challenges remain.
BY Oliver Slow
အပြန်အလှန်ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းနဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းတွေ ပြုလုပ်ဖို့မရှိတဲ့ ၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံကြီးက ဆွေးနွေးချက်များကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရုံသာမကဘဲ မကြာခင်မှာ နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ ပြုလုပ်သွားဖို့စီစဉ်နေတဲ့ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွေမှာ အသုံးပြုသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်
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The competition for secondhand and counterfeit mobile phones is intense in a market that’s been flooded with the products since the telecoms sector was liberalised in 2013.
BY Thi Ri Han
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A film about one of the nation’s worst disasters has contributed to a growing interest among young filmmakers in making documentaries.
BY Thi Ri Han
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