The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
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Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.
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Another jump in fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine has brought extra suffering for the people of Myanmar as they struggle with economic fallout from the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The wife of a Kachin man on trial for deeming to have defamed the military for a Facebook post has said she is concerned about his health.
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A meeting between NLD leader Aung San Suu Kyi and senior political figures will not affect the work of the Union Election Commission, officials say.
Attention will now focus on the final official results and their implications for the formation of the next government of Myanmar.
In one of her first interviews following the National League for Democracy’s apparent victory at the polls, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on Wednesday spoke to U Khin Maung Soe, Senior Editor for Radio Free Asia’s Burmese service. U Khin Maung Soe has permitted Frontier to reprint parts of the interview which touched on a wide range of issues including foreign policy, foreign investment and the need to look out for “instigations.”
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Red pen mania reached new heights of opprobrium at censorship headquarters after the 2010 election, especially reports about advance voting that the government had good reason to terminate with extreme prejudice.
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