Amid the collapse of both the economy and the rule of law in Myanmar, moneylenders are setting extortionate interest rates for desperate borrowers and hiring thugs to collect their dues.
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Amid the collapse of both the economy and the rule of law in Myanmar, moneylenders are setting extortionate interest rates for desperate borrowers and hiring thugs to collect their dues.
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Intense conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has led to an increase in the number of severely injured civilians, even as aid organisations stop work in the region and services for the disabled decline.
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Resistance groups in western Mandalay Region have shown signs of greater coordination and effectiveness, but there’s still a long way to go to replicate the successes of their comrades in the north.
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An alliance of Myanmar ethnic armed groups have accused the junta of repeatedly violating a China-brokered ceasefire in the north of the country this month and causing civilian casualties.
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Desperate migrant workers are increasingly heading for the Golden Triangle SEZ in Laos, whose illicit economy has apparent links to Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed group.
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Some households and businesses in Myanmar have turned to solar power to deal with prolonged shortfalls in the national power grid, but the steep cost of imported equipment puts solar out of reach for most.
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Myanmar students trying to leave regime-run schools for those managed by the resistance risk fines and grade demotions for having foregone the Civil Disobedience Movement.
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As in other communities, some Muslim leaders are backing the regime, while many more fight against it, but some find it difficult to trust a democracy movement that has disappointed them before.
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Caught between an obstructive regime and bureaucratic inertia, the United Nations in Myanmar has struggled to fulfil its mandate since the 2021 coup.
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Resistance groups in Myanmar’s Mon State have been emboldened by the support of an ethnic splinter militia, but political divisions are still holding them back from building a united front.
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Tucked away in the mountains of western Cambodia are the remnants of a once-thriving Myanmar community known as the Kula, whose decline is a little-explored mystery involving gems, dreams and the Khmer Rouge.
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Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by Rakhine State’s Pauktaw town for victory against the junta in the country's civil war.
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