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Myanmar cop details sting on Rohingya massacre reporters
Reuters, Published on 09/05/2018
» YANGON: A Myanmar policeman now serving a prison sentence gave more details to a court on Wednesday about how he says two Reuters reporters were framed by police, in what has become a landmark press freedom case for the Southeast Asian nation.
Medicine monk
Spectrum, Phil Thornton, Published on 27/12/2015
» The muscular arm of a saffron-clad monk, propped against the wall of a bamboo hut, draws air pictures to illustrate why his community is in desperate need of an ambulance.
Open slaughter of elephants
Spectrum, Published on 24/11/2013
» Ninety-three kilometres along the newly built Yangon-Nay Pyi Taw highway, Myint Wai stepped into the jungle where he recently discovered the carcasses of several dead elephants. Making his way deeper into the woods of the Bago mountain range, he spoke to Spectrum about the hunters who killed the animals to trade their skins and valuable tusks.
Refuse run-off plagues push for orderly reform
Spectrum, Published on 15/09/2013
» Guidebooks will say Yangon is most famous for the beautiful Shwedagon Pagoda, a sacred Buddhist site and major tourist attraction. But bring your eyes down from the towering golden spires to the streets, and the view can be somewhat less appealing.
Keeping their heads above water
Spectrum, Published on 11/08/2013
» At his wooden home on the rocky Salween riverbank, Watsan Namchaitosaporn recalls being told his village will be flooded when the controversial Hat Gyi dam is completed.
Suffer the little children
Spectrum, Published on 30/06/2013
» Political and social reforms in Myanmar have done little to stop horrific child labour abuses, human rights groups say.
Under pressure: refugees feel welcome has worn out
Spectrum, Published on 26/05/2013
» As she sits chewing betel nuts outside her bamboo home in the Mae La Oon refugee camp, Naw Molo Moe says life has become more difficult since non-governmental organisations began scaling back their financial aid.
Questions raised over cause of refugee camp blaze
Spectrum, Published on 07/04/2013
» Two weeks after 38 people were killed in a fire at the Mae Surin camp in Mae Hong Son province, the circumstances that led to the fatal blaze remain unclear.
No end in sight amid season of slaughter
Spectrum, Published on 23/12/2012
» For Kachin huddled into refugee camps in Laiza, the ethnic group's administrative capital, and others who have been driven into the jungle by the bloody conflict engulfing their state, the prevailing mood of this holiday season is one of fear.
Peace may prove elusive as divisions sap strength of karen national union
Spectrum, Published on 14/10/2012
» After crossing the Thai border into northern Karen State on a wooden ferry traversing the muddy Salween River, we reach the base of the Karen National Liberation Army.