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One Year into the Lose-Lose Putsch (3): Friends Like These?
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This is the third instalment in a four-part series remembering the first year of the cataclysmic military coup in Burma. The first instalment, “2021: The...
The end of the settlement: Yangon squat clearances uproot thousands
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A life’s worth of possessions are stacked in a heap on the ground. The owner of the ragged parcels, U Maw, looks in the...
The battle over Yangon’s Dala bridge
Bridges over major rivers can transform local, as well as national, economies. But not everyone is in favour of building a $168 million bridge linking the congested downtown of Yangon with the poor and rural township of Dala to the south.
Court in Burma convicts farmers of trespass in ‘blow’ to land rights
A Burmese court finds 33 farmers living next to a Special Economic Zone guilty of criminal trespass, a ruling seen by activists as a blow to land rights in a country with a rising demand for property for industrial use.
Indian ship delivers aid for cyclone victims
The humanitarian aid included food, drinking water, clothes and medicine, according to a statement from the Indian embassy.
Legal advocacy group urges halt to SEZ expansion
An international legal association is calling for a moratorium on expansion work at Burma’s special economic zones (SEZs), a key component of the country’s development agenda.
