Some seven million people in Burma regularly chew betel quid and tobacco – a habit that causes more than 60,000 deaths in the country every year.
Category: Society
Uber to hire only govt-approved taxi drivers in Burma
This partnership with local taxi drivers and their unions is unique to Burma, Sam Bool, Uber’s expansion general manager for Southeast Asia, told Reuters.
14 dead, 150 injured during Thingyan
The data covered the four days of public holiday from 13–16 April, a period renowned for drunken revelry.
Transgender beauty queen demands apology for wrongful arrest
“The fact that I was in jail cannot be washed away in a shower,” said Myo Ko Ko San at today’s press conference.
Lifting the lid on child rape
The story of a three-year-old in Sagaing Division sheds light on a long-hushed issue in Burma: child rape, reports of which have risen 40 percent this year.
Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay
City official acknowledges there has been a marked increase in the number of children begging at junctions and traffic lights around central Mandalay, and said it was down to “economic…