Under sanctions and desperate for hard currency, the military regime is forcing Myanmar workers abroad to remit earnings through formal channels, with some warning it will only push more migrants to become undocumented.
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Under sanctions and desperate for hard currency, the military regime is forcing Myanmar workers abroad to remit earnings through formal channels, with some warning it will only push more migrants to become undocumented.
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The regime’s planned population count threatens to boost its powers of surveillance and leave dissidents with few places to hide.
BY Frontier
People living with HIV are finding it harder to access life-saving care due to civil war and a crumbling healthcare system, while also facing continued social stigma and discrimination.
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There’s no shortage of choice in Yangon’s journal and newspaper market. Vendors’ stands busy with colourful displays of publications are everywhere in the commercial capital, but news-hungry readers in Yangon are unlikely to be encouraged to buy a publication at the urging of its owner.
Singapore’s transition from backwater to global city has made it the envy of the developing world and Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd. has been a prominent ambassador of the city-state’s model abroad. The company has roots in Singapore’s Housing Development Board, which developed the city-state’s enviable public housing program, and JTC Corporation, which helped to turn the country into an industrial powerhouse.
The NLD central election committee’s decision to exclude popular, respected figures from its candidates list generates a backlash within the party.
BY Oliver Slow
The United States has ranked Myanmar as a Tier 2 Watch List country on its annual Trafficking in Persons report for the fourth consecutive year.
BY Oliver Slow
Former rebel student army, the All Burma Students Democratic Front, has called on the government to include all the country’s ethnic groups in the peace process aimed at ending decades of civil conflict.
BY Oliver Slow
Myanmar puppetry, an artform dating back to the 15th century, is melding ancient traditions with modernity to embrace a new audience.
BY Oliver Slow
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