Numerous migrant jade prospectors continue to search slag stacks for pieces of the valuable gems amidst unsafe conditions throughout the monsoon season in Myanmar’s Hpakant mining location, despite a deadly mudslide that eliminated approximately 200 scavengers in early July. Heavy rains set off the collapse of big stacks of muddy waste referred to as tailings […]

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A team selected by the Myanmar federal government to penetrate a huge landslide at a jade mine in northern Myanmar has actually started its examination into the fatal mishap that eliminated a minimum of 172 people, a Kachin state official stated Tuesday. Heavy rains triggered stacks of loose dirt and debris to collapse on July […]

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Health officials in Laos say the federal government has actually executed efficient procedures to avoid the spread of the fatal coronavirus, however that authorities should ensure they continue to be maintained since the impoverished country with minimal medical resources remains at danger. The little landlocked nation of 7 million people has actually signed up 19 […]

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Cross-border freight policies put in location by China in action to the spread of the coronavirus are pinching Myanmar traders and truck drivers, who have actually voiced issue about the safety of their freight and charges enforced by the Chinese, authorities at Myanmar trade associations stated Friday. Chinese authorities have actually limited their drivers from […]

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Internally displaced civilians who left war in northern Myanmar are not hearkening federal government orders and lockdowns to avoid the spread of the coronavirus, with hundreds continuing to work outside their camps so they can earn earnings to purchase food in the middle of lacks of humanitarian help, camp and federal government authorities stated Tuesday. […]

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Thai cops apprehended and later on launched 300 migrant workers as they headed to the border to return home to Myanmar on Thursday amid the spread of the extremely infectious coronavirus, part of an exodus covering throughout Southeast Asia as factories in Thailand that depend on foreign labor shut down, a labor activist, an embassy […]

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High school graduates in northern Myanmar’s Kachin state saw their potential customers for college and excellent tasks vanish when equipped conflict in between federal government forces and a rebel ethnic army resumed about 9 years earlier. Looking for autonomy for the northern most state on Myanmar’s borders with China and India, Kachin insurgents had actually […]

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A volunteer group has actually been developing makeshift hand-washing stations in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, to avoid the spread of the coronavirus in the lack of a methodical response by the government, which keeps the nation has actually no verified cases of the viral illness. The humanitarian group Ma Ywe is setting up the stations […]

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The Myanmar federal government on Friday assured people that food materials are sufficient and prompted individuals not to panic over the coronavirus pandemic, amid rumors about the spread of extremely infectious infection in the nation, which has yet to see any validated cases. The Myanmar President’s Office bought all state and local federal governments to […]

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