The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
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The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.
BY Frontier
Seizing Myanmar’s borders with Bangladesh and India has become central to the Arakan Army’s dream of autonomy and has driven its strategy during times of war and peace.
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An increasing number of Myanmar people are selling kidneys as a quick-fix solution to poverty and debt, with many donors going to India for transplants and telling lies to have them approved.
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The yemase, or 'unwashed', as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known, risk their lives to scrape out a living.
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The government needs to move faster to avert a financial catastrophe for millions of households in Myanmar.
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Dozens of jade miners were buried Friday in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border.
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COVID-19 travel restrictions have stranded thousands of Myanmar seafarers abroad, while thousands more are languishing at home and eager to return to work.
The battered bodies of more than 160 jade miners were pulled from a sea of mud after a landslide in northern Myanmar's Hpakant Township on Thursday.
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The bodies of at least 113 jade miners were pulled from the mud on Thursday after a landslide in Kachin State, fire services said, in one of the worst accidents ever to hit the perilous industry.
BY AFP
Parties accuse the commission of bias towards the ruling NLD party after it dismissed requests to ban images of Aung San from the campaign trail.
BY Hein Thar
Three Myanmar military officers were found guilty by a court martial investigating atrocities against Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State, the army said.
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