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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Ousted as chairman of the USDP, Thura U Shwe Mann launches his bid for election as the party’s representative in Phyu.
Buddhist migrants from Bangladesh are being resettled in Myanmar under a government policy to dilute the Muslim population of Rakhine State.
Bhutan’s experiment with democracy is worth emulating but its record on minority rights is a stain on its image as a refuge of tranquility.
As the Shan Nationalities Democratic Party gears up for the 2015 election, Frontier interviews party chairman Sai Aik Pao at his home in Taunggyi.
After 20 years in digital marketing, including a stint at tech giant EA, Vietnamese-Canadian Rita Ngyuen came to Myanmar when the country was still a digital no-fly zone. After co-founding social media platform MySquar, Forbes Asia named her one of the Power Women to watch. Her latest venture is Jzoo, outfitting brick-and-mortar businesses with a high-tech loyalty platform. Customers get rewards and discounts, and Jzoo fills the data gaps for a relatively unexplored consumer base.
New research sheds light on massive illicit capital flows through Myanmar over the last five decades.
Rita Nguyen, a digital marketing veteran and member of the Forbes Asia 'Power Women' list, discusses her latest venture in Myanmar.
New research sheds light on massive illicit capital flows through Myanmar over the last five decades.
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