Q&A: Author Clare Hammond reveals how railways made and broke Myanmar
For three months in 2016, Clare Hammond, a British journalist working in the Southeast Asian country of Myanmar, traveled ...
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China Faces Fierce Online Backlash in Myanmar After Threat Against Ethnic Army
The Chinese Embassy’s Facebook has been swamped with comments condemning a Chinese agency’s warning to the TNLA to stop ...
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‘Blood type O. DM me’: Myanmar’s poorest are so desperate they’re turning to social media to sell their kidneys
Hong Kong/New Delhi CNN — Delivery driver Maung Maung’s wife and young daughter hadn’t eaten in three days, he recalled, when ...
An editor says a Myanmar military court has sentenced a local journalist to life in prison
The editor of an independent online news service in Myanmar says a military court has given a life prison sentence to one of ...
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Dhaka’s Role in Myanmar’s Crisis
Muhammad Yunus, as Bangladesh's new leader, can be a powerful force for good in advocating for the release of Myanmar's ...
Poverty is so bad in Myanmar people are offering to sell their kidneys online. Hear one man’s story
Two years since a military coup in the country, nearly half of Myanmar’s population has been pushed into poverty. Some are ...
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China is conducting military patrols near the Myanmar border as civil war rages on the other side
China’s military is carrying out armed patrols near the Myanmar border this week, where the government is concerned about potential fallout from fierce fighting in a civil war on the other side ...
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Myanmar arms civilians as rebels draw closer to Mandalay
BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government is allowing selected civilians to carry weapons, expanding its public ...
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‘Are we not eating tonight?’ Myanmar’s military junta accused of using hunger as a ‘weapon’ by blocking vital food aid
Khin Mar Cho worries for her 4-year-old son as she struggles to scrape together enough food to feed him in a makeshift displacement camp at a crowded monastery in western Myanmar. Soldiers had ...
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A military court has sentenced a Myanmar journalist to life in prison, outlet's editor says
The editor of an independent online news service in Myanmar says a military court has given a life prison sentence to one of its journalists and sentenced another to 20 years after convicting them ...