Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
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An interview with Roland Kobia, EU Ambassador to Myanmar.
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Much ink has been spilled about the prospect of pre-election violence, but the most serious risks are likely to surface once the polling booths have closed.
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With more than 45 million followers, Buddhism is Myanmar's biggest religion. Here's an introduction.
နိုင်ငံတကာ ကုမ္ပဏီကြီးဖြစ်သော ဆမ်ဆောင်းသည် တောင်ကိုရီးယား၏ အကြီးမားဆုံး စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းစုကြီး ဖြစ်ပြီး သူ၏ ဒါဇင်ပေါင်းများစွာသော လုပ်ငန်းခွဲများထဲ၌ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်လည်း ပါဝင်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်သည် ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးမားဆုံးအိုင်တီကုမ္ပဏီများထဲမှ တစ်ခုလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း လ
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