A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
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A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.
BY Frontier
Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.
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Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.
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A highly profitable but controversial aviation fuel joint venture has been operating without land lease agreements for four years, drawing scrutiny from lawmakers and the Auditor General’s Office.
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Juvenile detainees in the Sagaing Region capital are being held in police custody in violation of the Child Rights Law, and are allegedly deprived of meals and physically abused by older inmates.
The development of contemporary art in Myanmar has been hampered by a paucity of curators, with most galleries asking artists to arrange, fund and promote their own exhibitions.
Brokers acting as proxies for Chinese and Thai companies are buying large tracts of farmland around a village in Kayin State where the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army has its headquarters.
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The immediate steps that the government can take in response to the ruling by the International Court of Justice include dismantling enforced ethnic segregation in Rakhine State.
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