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After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing discrimination in Myanmar’s commercial capital.
An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for ...
More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue ...
A regime airstrike hit a school in Sagaing Region on Monday killing 22 people, including 20 children, witnesses said, despite a purported humanitarian ceasefire called to help Myanmar recover from a ...
Ko Min said he found his son and daughter’s bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services. In February the junta, known as the State ...
The teak trees of the Bago Yoma mountain range have long been a target for illegal logging, but the practice has intensified amid the post-coup chaos, with the involvement of both junta and resistance ...
The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
The Myanmar earthquake brought massive death and destruction, but the government’s heavy press restrictions mean that the true extent is still unknown. This week we hear the audio journals of two ...
A charred Myanmar hillside is wreathed by flames, spewing ochre smoke that smothers out sunlight in an apocalyptic scene. But the villagers who set it ablaze dance below in a ceremony celebrating the ...
As Catholics filed into Myanmar’s grandest cathedral to mourn Pope Francis on Tuesday, a wartime power cut plunged the worship hall into a murky gloom. But at the front of the pews a portrait of the ...
Myanmar marked one month since suffering its fiercest earthquake in more than a century on Monday, with military bombardments unabated despite a humanitarian truce as thousands of survivors camp in ...