An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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A planned survey of religious buildings to identify those constructed without permission has caused confusion and concern within the Buddhist and Muslim communities.
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Telenor raced out of the blocks in 2014 and quickly pulled away from the other new operator, Ooredoo. What were the key factors behind your initial success?
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Mercury, a highly-toxic chemical that endangers the health of small-scale gold miners who use it in far northern Myanmar, has been detected in one of the main waterways flowing through Yangon.
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The government has revealed plans for big care centres for street children and other homeless people, but civil society groups lament a lack of cooperation from officials in addressing the problem.
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