Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
BY Frontier
The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.
BY Esther Wah
Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.
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BY Oliver Slow
It took a change of mindset to develop the Thilawa Special Economic Zone, and the reward for the country will be a rich investment dividend.
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A sneezing monkey and a 'Dracula' fish are two species recently discovered in Myanmar, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund.
BY Oliver Slow
One of Myanmar’s most respected monks made some unexpected references to Iran when he addressed thousands of monks at a rally in Yangon earlier this month.
With election day drawing near the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party is using every trick in the book to avoid a humiliating defeat. Frontier counted at least ten nasty tactics for manipulating the vote outcome.
U Sai Thiha Kyaw holds the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Mongyai Township in northern Shan State for the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy. He spoke to Frontier about his hopes of contributing to self-determination in Shan State.
BY Oliver Slow
Since late 2013, a campaign supported by Ma Ba Tha has forced dozens of Muslim-owned slaughterhouses and beef-processing facilities across the Ayeyarwady Region to shut down.
BY Myanmar Now
The controversy related to the projects close to the Shwedagon Pagoda lingers on after a Buddhist group, including members of the Ma Ba Tha, demanded the immediate cancellation of all five developments in its vicinity.
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