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Burma
Senior Myanmar and Chinese officials and executives agreed at an online meeting to implement e-commerce systems to facilitate trade amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Burma
Vice-President Henry Van Thio said Myanmar may join “travel bubbles” with countries that have contained COVID-19 but said international flights may not resume until October.
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Burma
Myanmar says government staff can now take coronavirus tests to prove they are fit to fly on vital trips.
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Photo Essay
In Thailand, COVID-19 has left millions of migrant workers from Myanmar jobless, facing a daily struggle to get by with little income and few options.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
The Health Ministry has warned that people in Myanmar must still follow COVID-19 guidelines, as many citizens have begun to relax now that local transmissions are contained.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Ko Nay Lin Htet, a 27-year-old man who hung himself while in quarantine in Pathein, was the second returned migrant worker to kill himself on Friday.
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Burma
Saw David Lah faces up to three years in prison for arranging a series of religious gatherings in April blamed for spreading coronavirus to at least 80 people.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
A surgeon in Shan State who shows no symptoms of COVID-19 has tested positive for the disease after previously testing negative for it twice.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Snr-Gen Min Aung Hlaing and dozens of military personnel have tested negative for COVID-19 after visiting Russia, where the military chief attended Victory Day events.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Partial lockdown restrictions have been lifted in Yangon’s Insein Township, formerly a COVID-19 hotspot, after several weeks of no new local transmissions in the city.
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Burma
The bank warns the pandemic is "dealing a severe blow to Myanmar's economy” in its latest projection.
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Burma
Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Myanmar say they aren’t able to access government and foreign-backed loans due to strict repayment and application requirements.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Twenty-three COVID-19 cases detected on Friday among migrants deported from Thailand brought the country’s largest daily increase since its first reported case in late March.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Residents of border townships in Rakhine State are concerned that unreported arrivals of illegal returnees from Bangladesh will worsen already growing COVID-19 rates.
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Myanmar & COVID-19
Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s warning comes amid spate of people testing positive for COVID-19 after entering Myanmar illegally through Maungdaw Township in Rakhine State.
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