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Niwat award a call to act
Oped, Editorial, Published on 27/05/2022
» After two decades of campaigning to protect the Mekong River, Niwat Roykaew, a local teacher and founder of the Chiang Khong Conservation Group in Chiang Rai, finally received the accolade he deserved. Mr Niwat was one of six recipients of this year's Goldman Environmental Prize, a prestigious award for grassroots environmental activism.
Myanmar grappling with infodemic
Oped, Moe Myint, Published on 25/12/2020
» Be it false claims that drinking liquor or ginger juice will repel Covid-19, or that eating leaves of the neem tree will protect one from it, Facebook user Pa Pa has encountered them all in the varied, virulent strains of misinformation thriving around the pandemic in Myanmar.