The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
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After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing discrimination in Myanmar’s commercial capital.
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An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
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Leading businesspeople are sceptical about the ability of the National League for Democracy to effectively manage the economy, should it be able to form the next government.
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နိုင်ငံတကာ ကုမ္ပဏီကြီးဖြစ်သော ဆမ်ဆောင်းသည် တောင်ကိုရီးယား၏ အကြီးမားဆုံး စီးပွားရေး လုပ်ငန်းစုကြီး ဖြစ်ပြီး သူ၏ ဒါဇင်ပေါင်းများစွာသော လုပ်ငန်းခွဲများထဲ၌ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်လည်း ပါဝင်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း အီလက်ထရွန်းနစ်သည် ကမ္ဘာ့အကြီးမားဆုံးအိုင်တီကုမ္ပဏီများထဲမှ တစ်ခုလည်း ဖြစ်သည်။ ဆမ်ဆောင်း လ
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The military elite is on a determined mission to retain power after the November 8 election in which its hopes are likely to be thwarted by the will of the people.
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Despite fielding only a handful of candidates in this year's election, the FUP has big hopes for the future.
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Ethnic politics is dominating the election race in Rakhine State, where an increasingly confident Rakhine National Party covets the chief minister’s position and the divide between Buddhists and Muslims continues to fester.
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