In-Depth
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Aung ZayAung NaingApril 12, 2024
Overseas employment agencies thriving in Myanmar’s post-coup chaos
While most other businesses struggle, companies promising jobs abroad are doing a roaring trade
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Jessy WolfApril 10, 2024
Insufficient water adds to hardship faced by civilians, IDPs throughout Myanmar
People in three states told Myanmar Now about the difficulties they face in getting sufficient water, a problem that has become worse with climate change and increased privation due to conflict
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Jessy WolfApril 2, 2024
As Rakhine State war intensifies, an island town resists conscription and struggles with scarcity
As they defy Myanmar’s reactivated military service law, civilians on Manaung (Cheduba) Island face rising prices and growing food instability despite their remoteness from the fighting between junta and AA forces
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Jessy WolfApril 1, 2024
As war escalates in northern Rakhine, Rohingya have no allies
As the Myanmar military deploys sinister divide-and-rule tactics in its fight against the Arakan Army, Rohingya civilians with nowhere to run question how they will survive
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Myanmar NowMarch 20, 2024
Myanmar junta initiates conscription lotteries to select young people for training, frontline combat
The forced recruitment drive, announced in February, appears to be underway as regime administrators call up eligible civilians for medical examinations and threaten consequences for those who evade the summons
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