Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
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Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
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The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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Residents of a village in Chin State are using the remains of their animist ancestors as playthings.
The residents of Myanmar’s poorest state are hoping the National League for Democracy government will overturn years of neglect that some say is the result of religious discrimination.
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Nationalist writer Shwe U Daung adapted Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s famous literary creation and transported him to Rangoon in the 1930s to espouse his political views.
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ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ကိုလည်း ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံကို ထပ်မံလာရောက်လည်ပတ်ဖို့ ဂျပန်နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီးက ဖိတ်ခေါ်ခဲ့ပါတယ်
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