A sharp increase in household plastic waste amid COVID-19 has exacerbated the threat posed by Yangon’s near-capacity landfills and poor waste management systems. By HEIN.
BY Hein Thar
A sharp increase in household plastic waste amid COVID-19 has exacerbated the threat posed by Yangon’s near-capacity landfills and poor waste management systems. By HEIN.
BY Hein Thar
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.
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Competition is finally coming to the aviation fuel business, with up to three companies planning to take on a state-backed monopoly and (possibly) deliver cheaper airfares for travellers.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော် (အေအေ)အဖွဲ့က ဖမ်းဆီးထားသော အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးဝှေ့တင်းကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးစေလိုကြောင်း ဇနီးဖြစ်သူ ဒေါ်ခင်အိဆင့်က နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၄ ရက်တွင် တောင်းဆိုသည်။
BY Lun Min Mang
An online discourse filled with falsehoods and bigotry is a symptom, not a cause, of Myanmar's toxic politics.
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A visit to the riverside slaughterhouses in Yangon’s Insein Township where pigs are butchered every night is an experience best avoided by the squeamish.
The fourth anniversary of the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement should have been a happy occasion but instead brimmed with poignant reminders of the nation’s greatest tragedy.
In countries undergoing a transition to democracy, deeply engrained social and intellectual tendencies are often at odds with idealistic international political norms.
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