For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
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
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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If using your position as a journalist to convince a Bangkok tailor to lend you a suit and shoes off his own feet in exchange for a story is wrong, I don’t want to be right.
Yangon’s once-prominent Armenian community has dwindled over the decades, but its sense of history, heritage and identity remains strong.
Growing interest in health and fitness, especially among the young, is supporting a rise in venues for playing futsal and pumping iron, but entrepreneurs say profits are slim.
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The government keeps hyping the “rule of law” but it will be elusive until the criminal justice system is reformed, which will require the participation of the commander-in-chief.
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