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Myanmar rebels risk life and limb in DIY weapons factories
Published on 08/11/2022
» Under an awning in a bamboo thicket in northern Myanmar, an anti-coup fighter following instructions from YouTube welds scavenged steel into crude mortar rounds and shells to be fired at junta troops.
Myanmar's betel chewers swallowing hard at high prices
Published on 09/06/2016
» THANPHYUYONE, MYANMAR - It's as vital to life in Myanmar as cheese is to France or tea to Britain. For millions of people in the Southeast Asian country, the day is incomplete without chewing the juicy, teeth-staining parcels of betel leaf wrapped around areca nut and a slake of lime.
America's children in crossfire of gun control debate
AFP, Published on 07/10/2015
» WASHINGTON - Children as young as 12, eight and even five months old were shot dead in recent days in the United States -- deaths that highlight the dangers of easy access to weapons, and the difficulties of the gun control debate.