There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.
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There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.
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Bangladesh’s interim government has lobbied successfully for an international conference on the Rohingya. But for repatriation to have any chance of moving forward, organisers need to consider the rise of the Arakan Army.
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Members of the former ruling party have followed different paths since the 2021 coup, with some lying low and others taking up arms, while the continued imprisonment and recent deaths of party leaders raise questions about its future.
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Frontier chats to U Aye Lwin, joint secretary general of the Union of Myanmar Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry.
Cartoonists celebrated the end of censorship in 2012 with caricatures mocking previously off-limits government leaders. Now they’re turning their attention to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.
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There’s been a marked improvement in internet connectivity in recent years. An undersea cable will soon give users more reasons to celebrate.
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The economic slowdown in China will not affect its position as Myanmar’s most important trade and investment partner, but there are challenges ahead.
There’s been a marked improvement in connectivity in recent years and an undersea cable will soon give internet users more reasons to celebrate.
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