The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.
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The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.
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Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.
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Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers.
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Political allegiances in the real world are reflected in debates and arguments on Facebook, but the social media platform remains plagued by hate speech and fake accounts.
Myanmar’s social media boom is enabling people to speak up – whether it’s to complain to the government, help keep aggressive bus drivers off Yangon’s roads or make a dangerous expressway safer.
BY Htun Khaing
Some 20,000 convicts toil in prison camps across the country, where they face abuse, exploitation and forced labour, a Myanmar Now investigation finds.
BY Myanmar Now
Government ministries have begun announcing the results of their 100-day plans, but most observers remain underwhelmed by the progress made to date.
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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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