State employees who have fled conflict say they feel betrayed by the regime for failing to reassign or keep paying them, while those still serving in conflict zones go months without salaries.
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State employees who have fled conflict say they feel betrayed by the regime for failing to reassign or keep paying them, while those still serving in conflict zones go months without salaries.
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The PNLO has joined the war against Myanmar’s junta, prompting a minor leadership crisis, but while that was swiftly resolved, a rival Pa-O group has only grown more powerful.
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The Myanmar junta is using transportation blockades put in place during fighting with the KNDF to stop emergency aid from reaching areas of the state
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A massive influx in imported vehicles in recent years has contributed to deteriorating air quality in Yangon but information about pollution levels is yet to be released.
BY Hein Ko Soe
Multiple trials, longer sentences and targeted prosecutions against high-profile activists have accompanied an increased number of politically-motivated arrests, Amnesty says.
BY Sean Gleeson
The decision to nominate U Myint Swe as Vice President does not inspire confidence in the military's commitment to further democratic reform.
ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ပါဝင်လုပ်ဆောင်ခွင့် မရှိသော်လည်း ပါတီလုပ်ငန်းများတွင် ထိခိုက်မှု ရှိမည်မဟုတ်
The busy Chinese border town of Ruili is home to a large Myanmar community, many of whom are Muslims who have rebuilt their lives after fleeing discrimination and violence.
BY Ann Wang
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The boom in smartphone use has fuelled a long-simmering controversy in the IT community over adopting Unicode as the standard for character encoding in Myanmar, instead of Zawgyi.
Yangon’s freelance garbage collectors are cleaning up dirty streets, but there’s a suspicion some of them may be part of the problem.
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