Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.
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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.
BY Esther Wah
Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.
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A lack of job opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers in order to cross back into Thailand illegally.
BY Lawi Weng
Myanmar needs to do much more to ensure responsible conduct by investors, and a National Action Plan could point the way forward.
BY Frontier
Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.
BY Hein Thar
Frustrated by a lack of reform, 11 activists are competing as independents in the election on behalf of workers and farmers.
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Activists have faced a barrage of criticism on social media over protests in support of peace and other causes.
Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
BY Oliver Slow
In Frontier’s first interview with Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, the company said it wanted to be a model for Chinese investors.
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A group of Muslim candidates hopes to defy the community’s marginalisation by winning seats in the November election.
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