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Burma
Paletwa in Chin State has been blocked off by fighting and the Chin Human Rights Organization says villagers are forced to feed rebel troops.
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Burma
A video posted by China’s Xinhua in which a Myanmar woman describes a happy, prosperous marriage to a Chinese man could be used by human traffickers, activists warn.
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Photo Essay
Risking his health, a Yangon bird seller waits for the few pedestrians still looking to make merit on the streets of the city’s Hledan quarter amid the COVID-19 lockdown.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
One of Yangon’s health chiefs says the infection rate in the city has fallen from around 500 per day to 300 during this week.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Stricter stay-at-home orders for the whole city started on Monday while businesses are being told to work from home as coronavirus cases rise by up to 500 per day.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Myanmar reported 12 more fatalities from COVID-19 on Monday—11 in Yangon and one in Sittwe; the country’s death toll now stands at 32 with 3,299 total cases.
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Burma
A chief medic in Sittwe says the current strain of coronavirus is more virulent but less deadly than earlier this year.
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Dateline
This week, The Irrawaddy talks with public health expert Dr. Sitt Naing about the ‘second wave’ of COVID-19, virus mutations and what we can expect from a vaccine.
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Burma
Troops allegedly responded to a landmine blast by killing two villagers and burning more than 200 homes.
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Burma
China’s foreign affairs supremo, Yang Jiechi, is expected to visit Myanmar at some point this week, the embassy in Yangon has announced.
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Commentary
Myanmar’s military and government have looked the other way as a megaproject backed by shadowy Chinese interests threatens peace and social stability in Karen State.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Four IDP Rakhine State camps in Mrauk-U have been identified as possible coronavirus hotspots after NGO staff test positive.
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Burma
The Arakan Liberation Party (ALP) says five of its members, including three health workers, were abducted by the Arakan Army (AA) this week in Ponnagyun, Rakhine State.
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Burma
Three activists were detained by police for holding a Karen Martyrs’ Day event in Yangon without permission.
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Burma
U Shwe Mann, founder of the Union Betterment Party and ex-chair of the military proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party, says he will not run in Myanmar’s election.
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