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.
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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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Daw Aung San Suu Kyi reacts to disaffection over her decision to spurn alliances with ethnic-based parties during a pre-campaign visit to southern Shan State.
Free of party politics, independent candidates like U Khin Hlaing and Daw Nyo Nyo Thin look to bring an outside scrutiny to bear on the next parliament.
BY Oliver Slow
Decisions by the Union Election Commission and some political parties to exclude Muslim candidates from the November 8 election have already ensured that it cannot be fair.
BY Khin Zaw Win
There has been a significant change in the print media’s election coverage compared to five years ago.
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Buddhism might be a religion of peace, harmony and compassion, but for the Venerable U Uttara, abbot of the Myanmar Europe Buddhist Missionary Center at Pale Myothit in Yangon’s Mingaladon Township, the past three decades have been filled with conflict and strife.
BY Hans Hulst
The harm reduction approach to heroin addiction is having a positive impact on the lives of users in Kachin State, but is meeting some resistance from faith-based treatment centers.
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