Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.
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Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.
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A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah State reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team of medics to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.
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Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.
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Michel Fonteyne-Leitao and his wife, Fanny, are the founders of La Terrazza and La Pizza restaurants in Bagan. What he calls his “love affair” with Myanmar began when he met a friendly taxi driver in Yangon more than 10 years ago. He spoke to Frontier about the key to being a successful restaurateur in Myanmar and his passion for Bagan.
In a growing market that’s hungry to try new tech products it’s essential that they are easy to access and make a strong first impression.
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လူမှုကွန်ယက် ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်တွေ၊ ဘဏ်တွေကိုအသုံးပြုပြီး လောင်းရတဲ့စနစ်တစ်ခုကို ဒိုင်တွေက တီထွင်ခဲ့ပြီး ဘောလုံးပွဲလောင်းကစားသူများကို ဆွဲဆောင်နေပါတယ်
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A recent double feature at the Thamada Cinema offered a rather unusual take on political satire and the story of the nation’s first plane hijacking.
အင်န်အယ်လ်ဒီက ကမ်းလှမ်းပါက ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ဟု ပြောကြားခဲ့သည့် စီအီစီအဖွဲ့ဝင် ခြောက်ဦးအား ပါတီစည်းကမ်းများဖြင့် ခုံရုံးဖွဲ့အရေးယူမည်ဟု ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီက ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်
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