The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
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The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
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Seizing Myanmar’s borders with Bangladesh and India has become central to the Arakan Army’s dream of autonomy and has driven its strategy during times of war and peace.
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An increasing number of Myanmar people are selling kidneys as a quick-fix solution to poverty and debt, with many donors going to India for transplants and telling lies to have them approved.
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The illegal trade in pangolins and their meat and scales is booming in the lawless border town of Mong La, a leading environmental watchdog has found.
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Peace conferences due to begin in January will be prolonged and protracted because they involve too many participants and too many groups.
Peace conferences due to begin in January will be prolonged and protracted because they involve too many participants and too many groups.
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U Thant Myint-U rose to prominence as an author and analyst on Myanmar. The Burmese historian has written four books, most notably The River of Lost Footsteps and Where China meets India: Burma and the New Crossroads of Asia.
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Writer Paul Theroux visited Myanmar in the 1970s while gathering material for The Great Railway Bazaar. Following in his footsteps decades later, little has changed on Myanmar’s railways.
BY Oliver Slow
The Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious project to completely rebuild Myanmar's outmoded education system.
An attitude of letting bygones be bygones might be politically opportune, but it will not make the poignant issue of transitional justice go away.
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