Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
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Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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Graffiti flourished in Yangon a decade ago, but the number of artists has since slumped by more than half, and some say the scene never developed its own style.
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At Yangon’s Yayway cemetery on the full moon night of Thadingyut, the faithful performed ceremonies to free the spirits of the dead from wandering the earth.
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All stakeholders in the plight of the Rohingya stuck in camps in Bangladesh will need to show pragmatism, and spurn political maneuvering, if the refugees are to have any chance of returning home.
Mining projects have a troubled history in Kayin State and the latest proposal has villagers worried about the fate of two mountains that have an essential role in their lives.
A dwindling number of old men who fought with the British in World War Two are living contradictions to the myth that Myanmar’s people united against colonial rule.
BY Ben Dunant
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