United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
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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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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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U Maung Maung Thein, chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission Myanmar (SECM), talks with Frontier about plans to open Myanmar’s first stock market in December.
Eric Rose is the lead director of Herzfeld Rubin Meyer & Rose, which describes itself as the “first American law firm to open a law office in Myanmar.” Since July 2013, the firm has offered a range of legal services and maintains a pro-bono practice. Mr Rose has risen to prominence for helping Americans to navigate the financial sanctions regime the United States maintains against Myanmar, including a high-profile suit against U Tay Za’s Htoo Group on behalf of an American couple injured in the Air Bagan crash at Heho airport on Christmas Day 2012. He spoke with Frontier about US-Myanmar relations and Washington’s unique sanctions regime, of which he is a vocal critic.
U Maung Maung Thein, chairman of Securities and Exchange Commission Myanmar (SECM), talks with Frontier about plans to open Myanmar’s first stock market in December.
About 700,000 children throughout Myanmar are attending weekly classes on Buddhism at 5,000 schools established by a foundation with close ties to the hardline nationalist group Ma Ba Tha.
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The continuing presence of political prisoners in Myanmar’s jails strains believability in the government’s democratic credentials and its claims that next month’s election will be free and fair.
Myanmar has one of the highest death rates in Southeast Asia from rabies, a 100 percent vaccine-preventable disease.
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