(Reuters) - Breathless, fevered and without the extra oxygen that could help keep them alive, the new coronavirus patients at a hospital near Myanmar's border with India highlight the threat to a ...
The country's most powerful armed rebel group has played a prominent role in battling the pandemic in the areas under its control. After rapid growth in the garment sector during the country's period ...
CHIANG MAI, Thailand — The dead in Myanmar are piling up outside cemeteries, overwhelming workers struggling to keep pace with the demand for cremations. Those stricken with COVID-19 in Yangon, the ...
Vahpual is the pseudonym for a journalist in Myanmar's Chin State. TIME is withholding the author's identity due to the threat of reprisals. My village was among the first hit when a third wave of ...
Myanmar’s airlines have temporarily suspended flights to six domestic airports from 29 May to 8 June, in line with the government’s movement restrictions for certain townships to curb a rise in ...
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WASHINGTON, June 26, 2020—The World Bank’s Board of Executive Directors today approved a $200 million credit from the International Development Association (IDA) to increase agricultural productivity ...
(Bangkok) – Myanmar authorities should immediately move to limit the spread of the COVID-19 virus by reducing the populations of the country’s overcrowded and unsanitary prisons, Human Rights Watch ...
Myanmar’s Covid-19 crisis is spiraling out of control, as the coronavirus spreads among the most marginalized populations, including those in the country’s prisons. The escalation of politically ...
An Internet shutdown that began a year ago in parts of Myanmar is keeping some villages unaware of the coronavirus pandemic, humanitarian groups say. Restrictions on mobile Internet were put in place ...
Myanmar is having to weigh competing public health and socioecononmic concerns, all with an eye toward navigating the precarious civil-military balance. A man donates cash to a Buddhist monk wearing ...