Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
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Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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Kachin activist Daw May Sabe Phyu has campaigned on issues ranging from ethnic and gender equality to the rights of the disabled, but her latest struggle has been personal.
BY Oliver Slow
Shorter, modern hairstyles are cutting into the profits of Yangon's longstanding hair market.
Persecution, violence and abuse are part of the daily lives of transgender sex workers, but some are hoping for better times under a new government.
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BY Oliver Slow
Shorter, modern hairstyles are cutting into the profits of Yangon's longstanding hair market.
A lucrative hybrid seed trade is sprouting in Myanmar, thanks to a growing farm sector and relaxed visa regulations.
The National League for Democracy needs to urgently decide what role it wants to play in the peace process.
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