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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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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Prize-winning Mandalay painter Myo Khin can turn out more than 300 abstracts a year but his career was going nowhere until he made the change from watercolours to acrylic.
The much-anticipated release of the government’s economic policy has been a huge disappointment for those who expected detailed prescriptions for national development.
Environmentalists are campaigning to prevent the destruction of the nation’s remaining mangrove forests because they provide protection from extreme weather and support a rich variety of marine life.
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