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    Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay
    September 29, 2016in Lead Story, Mandalay Division, News, Society262by DVB
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    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…

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    November 13, 2013in Health, Lead Story, Video2by DVB
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    93-year-old independence fighter forced to beg to survive

    Ninety-three-year-old Thakin Hla Kyaing, who fought for Burma’s independence in the 1930s, has been forced to beg to survive.

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    October 19, 2013in Features, Lead Story, Video251by ZAW HTET
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    Burma’s elders forced onto the streets

    In Rangoon, the high cost of living has forced more and more people onto the streets to beg – and increasingly many of them are elderly.

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