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.
With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.
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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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