An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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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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A warning from the mouthpiece of the Union Solidarity and Development Party to Daw Aung San Suu Kyi ahead of a visit to Rakhine State has focused attention on her personal security arrangements.
Reports about a busy month in the courts for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and confusion over symbols used on party flags ruffle feathers at censorship headquarters.
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It took a change of mindset to develop the Thilawa Special Economic Zone, and the reward for the country will be a rich investment dividend.
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A sneezing monkey and a 'Dracula' fish are two species recently discovered in Myanmar, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund.
BY Oliver Slow
With election day drawing near the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party is using every trick in the book to avoid a humiliating defeat. Frontier counted at least ten nasty tactics for manipulating the vote outcome.
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