Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.
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The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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Myanmar’s earthquake has left the regime’s already shaky administration reeling, with thousands of its staff in the capital now living in temporary shelters and complaining of limited assistance from their masters.
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There lack of a garbage disposal system at Nyaung Shwe has created an eyesore at Inle Lake, one of Myanmar's top tourist destinations.
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The business community in the bustling border town of Muse is dominated by Chinese entrepreneurs and their families, who rather talk money than politics.
BY Ann Wang
Yangon’s already negligible public spaces are under threat from the city's commercial construction boom.
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The question of what it means to be a Myanmar is more relevant than ever.
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I had heard rumours about Yangon’s casinos, rare hives of vice and villainy in the busy heart of Myanmar, where cronies gathered to cut shady deals and the only women were of questionable repute.
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