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    Category: Feature

    Feature Lead Story Opinion

    Mobilizing Young, First-time Voters is an Investment in Myanmar’s Future

    The diplomatic missions of Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden to Myanmar, are organizing their annual Nordic Day Event on 14 February. The topic of this year’s Nordic Day is Mobilization[…]

    Culture Feature Lead Story News

    Join Hands to End Violence Against Women and Girls

    Today is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, which marks the start of the global 16 Days of Activism Against Gender-Based Violence. The diplomatic missions of[…]

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    Grape growers feed an expanding wine market in Burma

    Burma’s drinkers currently prefer beer or spirits, but wine producers are hopeful that wine enjoyment will keep growing steadily from its low base. as supermarkets in larger cities are stocking an increasing number of locally made wines.

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    Feature Features (OLD) Labour Issues

    Garment industry gears up for rise in minimum wage

    The minimum wage will rise from 3600 kyats ($2.70) to 4,800 kyats per day, but for some workers, fears have been raised it may come at the cost of other existing benefits.

    Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story Rohingya

    Lured by a happily-ever-after dream, Rohingya girls sold in India

    Cases of men and women enslaved in bonded labour or trafficked for marriage have started to emerge in India after they managed to escape or were rescued and found their way to Rohingya settlements there.

    Feature Lead Story News

    Chin State, marked by change, looks to hold on to its roots

    “At the age of 10, I got my tattoos,” says Ma Lha Sen.

    Farmers Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story News

    Climate of uncertainty fuels anxiety, exodus in Dry Zone

    A changing climate is putting downward pressure on residents in Burma’s Dry Zone, where farming families stretch back generations.

    Feature Features (OLD) Lead Story News

    Too young to toil: Burma’s child labour epidemic

    The government has taken the first step to address the rampant problem of child labour throughout the country by drafting a five-year National Action Plan to eliminate child labour.

    Environment Feature Features Features (OLD) Lead Story News Rangoon

    Rangoon trash alley gets a makeover

    There’s no hiding Rangoon’s trash problem. The streets of Burma’s biggest city are often the scene of overflowing garbage, but one organisation is changing that.

    Electricity Feature Lead Story News

    Rural Burma still lit by candles, kerosene and batteries

    Generators are expensive. Pact says one hour of diesel power in rural Burma costs roughly the same as 24 hours of power in Rangoon.

    Development Economy Feature Features Labour Issues Lead Story

    In Burma, garment industry booms — and labour unions pay the price

    Discrimination against workers standing up for their rights in Burma’s garment industry was highlighted this month after a union leader was fired at a factory supplying fashion brand H&M.

    Chin Farmers Feature Lead Story

    Can agriculture, small loans lead Chin State to a fertile future?

    Challenges abound, but so too does hope that the right set of policies can spur development in this remote part of Burma.

    Feature Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Domestic violence: Customary law discourages divorce

    “When I saw my children’s faces it was very difficult. I decided that getting beaten up every night is just one thing [compared to leaving my children].”

    Feature Health Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Contraceptives: The final taboo

    In a country where the subject of sex is still shrouded in shame, teaching young people how to prevent unwanted pregnancies remains a challenge.

    Arts Culture Feature Features Features (OLD) News

    Testing the new era of artistic freedom

    Burma’s artists explore the possibilities of creative life in the post-censorship age

    Feature Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Burma’s broken system silent on violence against women

    Recent revelations about severe abuses inflicted on two young housemaids have highlighted the need for better protection of the rights of girls and women.

    Education Feature Lead Story News

    Kickstarting the economy from the classroom

    Education reform in Burma is underway — and not a moment too soon.

    Conflict Ethnic issues Feature Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Eliminating sexual violence in conflict areas

    As war continues in Burma’s border areas, calls grow to end attacks on women.

    Feature Lead Story Migrants Issues News Refugees

    Living on 10 baht a day

    Expectations are high that this week’s visit to Thailand by Aung San Suu Kyi will help raise awareness of issues affecting the millions of Burmese migrant workers in the country.

    Drugs Feature Kachin Lead Story News

    Jade miners’ dreams of fortune turn into tragedy of addiction

    Tens of thousands of poor men from across Burma seek their fortune at Hpakant’s jade mines, only to see their lives ruined by drug addiction.

    Business Feature Women's Issues

    A business with social responsibility baked in

    A bakery that teaches disadvantaged women the skills they need to succeed in the workplace is part of a growing trend towards social businesses in Burma.

    Environment Feature Lead Story News Photos

    U Bein Bridge: What lies beneath

    At sunrise and sunset a rash of tourists swarm Ubein Bridge to take photos of the iconic teak bridge. But what you don’t see in most of the glossy guidebooks is the rubbish in the foreground.

    Feature Lead Story News

    Building bridges – with hair

    Women across Burma are choosing to cut off their hair and donate it to a monastery that is building new bridges across the country.

    Feature Lead Story News Refugees

    After decades in camps, refugees in Thailand see a glimmer of hope

    Many are still reluctant to leave, but after 30 years of displacement, refugees living in camps in Thailand are beginning to see the possibility of returning to their homeland.

    Education Feature Lead Story News

    NLD faces uphill task in tackling university reforms

    Military rule wrecked Burma’s higher education system and the new government faces many challenges to restore it.

    Conflict Feature Lead Story Military News

    The hidden menace of landmines continues to haunt Burma’s conflict zones

    Across Burma, landmines pose a daily threat, but five years after the transition to democracy began, there is still no official clearance programme.

    Feature Health Lead Story News Video

    The road to rural healthcare reform

    Mismanagement and a chronic lack of funding during 50 years of military rule are the main culprits for the poor state of healthcare in Burma today.

    Feature Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Burma’s deadly abortion taboo

    “One of my friends is five weeks pregnant. She is uneducated and poor. Her boyfriend ran away when she told him that she was pregnant. She’s crying.”

    Migrant children left out of new democracy video

    Feature Lead Story Video

    Migrant children left out of new democracy

    “The kids are getting older and they won’t be able to return to Burma until their parents make some money. So they just grow older and older.”

    Feature Health Lead Story

    Lacking support, Burma’s mental health patients suffer in silence

    Mental health patients—many of them victims of junta-era repression—suffer in silence due to cultural stigma and a lack of psychological health care.

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