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To worry about the land and stress over their legal relationship with it is the condition of the Karen people today.

In a move seen as an effort to supplement the military’s dwindling numbers, Myanmar’s government is actively encouraging students to join the University Training Corps (UTC). Reports from junta-affiliated newspapers reveal that several high-ranking generals,...

Phrae, 200km outside Chiang Mai, in Thailand, used to be at the heart of the teak trade, and the exotic wood can be seen in the architecture of its tourist-free town, in its museums, mansions and temples.

Community land for most Indigenous Karen people in Myanmar is not subject to ownership — it is rather a source of their faith, a divine creator of which the Karen are solely the custodians. Despite this belief, Karen communities living in the southern Kayin state (or Kawthoolei, as Karen nationalists call it) have taken part […]

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BANGKOK (AP) — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks. “As a person living in this country, I only have two options: to go abroad illegally or die here,” Thwel told The Associated Press by phone while travelling to […]

Observers believe a mass exodus of young talent is taking place in Myanmar and it could become a social problem, with their exit heightening the instability that followed the military takeover that now amounts to a civil war.

The Office of the City Agriculturist of welcomed KOICA Philippines Office and project management consultants for the Value Chain Enhancement of High Value Crops

Some observers believe a mass exodus of young talent is taking place and could become a social problem, with their exit heightening the instability that followed the military takeover that now amounts to a civil war

BANGKOK (AP) — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks. “As a person living in this country, I only have two options: to go abroad illegally or die here,” Thwel told The Associated Press by phone while traveling to […]