A Myanmar tradition of playing card games at funerals has warped into days-long illegal gambling fests organised by gangsters and approved by corrupt officials.
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A Myanmar tradition of playing card games at funerals has warped into days-long illegal gambling fests organised by gangsters and approved by corrupt officials.
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Myanmar farmers whose crops were devastated by Typhoon Yagi say they have received no help from the military regime, raising questions about the recovery process and the long-term impacts of the disaster.
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As the conflict between the military and Kachin Independence Army escalates and both groups face pressure for funds, fighting in Myanmar’s jade mining hub reaches new levels of intensity.
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၂၀၁၂ခုနှစ်၊ ဇွန်လတွင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံအစိုးရက ကုလသမဂ္ဂနှင့်အတူ ပူးတွဲလုပ်ငန်းဆောင်ရွက်မှု စီမံချက်ကို သဘောတူလက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးပြီးသည့်အချိန်မှ ယနေ့အထိ ကလေးသူငယ် ၇၄၅ ဦးကို တပ်မတော်က နှုတ်ထွက်ခွင့်ပြုခဲ့ပြီးဖြစ်သည်
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Yangon’s Drug Elimination Museum is cavernous, crumbling and weird, but not that weird.
There’s something odd about the Ministry of Rail Transportation’s tendering system and the way it spends taxpayers’ money.
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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