Thailand has just reopened its border to Myanmar workers, but a cumbersome application process and deepening poverty continues to push them down illegal paths.
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Thailand has just reopened its border to Myanmar workers, but a cumbersome application process and deepening poverty continues to push them down illegal paths.
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If the National Unity Government wants to be taken seriously on the international stage, it needs to put forward a coherent, united, powerful vision for Myanmar’s future.
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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.
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The European Union says a controversial marriage bill approved by the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw on July 7 is discriminatory and risks undermining democratic progress.
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The middle and upper classes are faring well under the Thein Sein government, but has the President lived up to his promise to alleviate rural poverty?
BY Oliver Slow
The middle and upper classes are faring well under the Thein Sein government, but has the President lived up to his promise to alleviate rural poverty?
BY Oliver Slow
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