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Opium farming takes root in Myanmar's war-wracked landscape
Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as ...
How Myanmar’s Rohingya refugees feel about Aung San Suu Kyi: ‘She was a rag doll who never had absolute power’
Sitting in a dimly-lit bamboo shelter in the world’s largest refugee camp, Rohingya Muslims like Azizur Rehman could be ...
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Plans underway to assemble Chinese BYD electric cars on military-owned land in Myanmar
The junta-controlled holding company Myanma Economic Holdings Limited (MEHL) is reportedly leasing land to be used in ...
The peaceful village that could be cut in half by a new border fence
In the remote hilltop village of Longwa, the most prominent structure is the corrugated tin roof of the hut belonging to the ...
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In Myanmar’s fields of fear, farmers sow opium poppies for survival
Four years on, the United Nations has said Myanmar is mired in a “polycrisis” of mutually compounding conflict, poverty and environmental damage. Aung Hla was forced off his land in Moe Bye ...
In northeast India, a border fence could cut through villages, houses and lives
Like dozens of other Indigenous Naga tribes, the Konyak’s land straddles the mountains that divide India and Myanmar. Naga ...
Myanmar villagers reveal 'desperate' illegal kidney sales
Illegal kidney sales driven by poverty have been documented in recent years across Asia, including in Nepal, Pakistan, ...
On a Lawless Tropical Border, the Global Scam Industry Thrives
A China-led crackdown on online fraud rescued thousands from Myanmar this month. But this massive business of grift keeps ...