The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

This week: The exploration of coal in Shan State is having a detrimental impact on the lives and livelihoods of local people, with issues including long-term injuries from left-over waste, smell pollution, and respiratory diseases. 

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ဒီတစ်ပတ်မှာတော့ ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်အတွင်းကကျောက်မီးသွေးတူးဖော်ရေးလုပ်ငန်းတွေကြောင့်ဒေသခံတွေရဲ့အသက်မွေးဝမ်းကြောင်းတွေ ထိခိုက်ပျက်စီးနေရသလို အဲဒီတွင်းတွေရဲ့စွန့်ပစ်ပစ္စည်းတွေကနေ လာတဲ့အနံ့သက်ဆိုး တွေကြောင့် အသက်ရှူလမ်းကြောင်းဆိုင်ရာရောဂါလိုမျိုး အန္တရာယ်ရှိတဲ့ အကျိုးဆက်တွေကိုခံစားနေကြရပါတယ်။ဒီဆောင်းပါးအပြည့်အစုံကိုနားဆင်နိုင်ပါပြီ။

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