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    Lead Story News

    Life or death: Giving birth in Burma

    Cer Lui had to make a split decision — to drive herself to the hospital by motorbike, or stay in her home with her seven children — and deliver her baby.

    Lead Story News Refugees Rohingya

    Refugees turn to prostitution in Cox’s Bazar

    As Rohingya women struggle to access even the very basics such as food and water in Bangladesh’s overcrowded camps, a flourishing sex trade offers cash in times of desperation.

    Arakan Health Lead Story News Rohingya

    Health care for all in Arakan? Critics say reality belies state counsellor’s assertion

    In a speech last week, Aung San Suu Kyi said all people in Arakan State “have access to education and healthcare services without discrimination.” For critics, however, that’s simply not true — a contention supported by a report that Suu Kyi’s own government has embraced.

    Development Economy Lead Story News

    Burma needs millions of new houses, says UN

    The UN says that one in four people in Burma live in low-quality housing, exposing them to greater threats during natural disasters.

    Health Lead Story News

    Burma training more midwives to tackle maternal death rate

    Burma is training up hundreds of midwives in an effort to reduce the number of women who die in childbirth, one of many social policy reforms launched by the country as it emerges from decades of military rule.

    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.

    Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Burma’s gender-equality progress reviewed in Naypyidaw

    Burma’s progress in achieving gender equality was under the spotlight in Naypyidaw on Friday during a review of the country’s National Strategic Plan for the Advancement of Women.

    Census Chin Lead Story News Women's Issues

    Family matters: Census reveals dilemmas for Chin women

    Married women in Chin State give birth to nine children on average, compared to four in Rangoon, according to new data.

    Interview Lead Story News

    Interview: ‘They don’t know it’s not OK to beat a woman’

    Representatives of the United Nations Population Fund speak to DVB about efforts to address gender-based violence in Burma.

    Census Lead Story News Religion

    Census shows slight increase in number of Muslims

    The percentage of Muslims in Burma’s population has barely grown in more than 30 years, according to census data released this week after more than two years of delays.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Keeping count in remote, conflict-hit Wa State

    Bringing Burma’s national census to Wa State paid off in many ways, including increasing cooperation among communities long at odds with each other.

    Census Lead Story News

    One in five children, elderly in Burma forced to work

    Life is short in Burma, and for many, most of it is spent working for their survival.

    Health Lead Story News

    Govt addresses family planning, abortion concerns

    The government is moving to extend maternal care services countrywide, in a bid to reduce risky illegal abortions and high rates of maternal fatalities.

    Census Lead Story News Society

    Census a reminder of how far Burma has to go

    A majority of houses in Burma are constructed from bamboo; only two percent have flush toilets, and 16 percent have electricity, according to a new census.

    Population shortfall forces rethink video

    Lead Story News

    Population shortfall forces rethink

    This year’s census showed a population almost 10 million short of the estimated figure.

    Bullet Points: 3 September 2014 video

    Bullet Points

    Bullet Points: 3 September 2014

    Watch today’s top stories with Angus Watson.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Burma reveals initial census data

    Burma’s Ministry of Immigration and Population released provisional census data on Saturday, showing that the country has a population of 51.4 million people, almost ten million fewer than previous estimates.

    DVB Debate: Systematic rape is used as a weapon of war video

    DVB Debate Lead Story News Politics Video

    DVB Debate: Systematic rape is used as a weapon of war

    In the second of a two-part special on war crimes, panellists on DVB Debate discuss the systematic use of rape by the Burmese army.

    Census Lead Story News Rohingya

    Census-takers fail to count Rohingyas

    Census-takers are locked in a standoff with Rohingya householders in Arakan State as the Muslim minority decline to answer questions while the enumerators refuse to record their ethnicity on the census questionnaires.

    Census Development Lead Story

    Term ‘Rohingya’ struck from census

    The census went ahead in Arakan State today as a decision to eliminate the term “Rohingya” from data collection lead to the cancellation of a planned boycott.

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    Census Lead Story News Society

    Burma’s first census in 30 years begins

    DVB captured some scenes of enumerators preparing the census questionnaires, leaving their stations, and interviewing the residents of Dala and Bahan townships in Rangoon.

    Analysis Lead Story News

    Burma’s badly needed census may have come too soon

    Incomplete demographic data is holding back development efforts in a new Burma, yet counting heads now could cause violence.

    Ethnic issues Interview Lead Story News Society

    Building consensus on the census

    DVB’s Angus Watson speaks to Janet Jackson, Burma Representative of the United Nations Population Fund, and her assistant Hla Hla Aye, about the international agency’s role in the upcoming census, its significance and the potential pitfalls.

    Ethnic issues Lead Story News

    Burmese Islamic group issues census directives

    The All Myanmar Islam Association has issued census directives to the country’s Islamic population as Rohingya classification remains a contentious issue.

    Lead Story News Rohingya

    Rohingya call on govt for inclusion in 2014 census

    Two Rohingya political parties issued a plea to the government last Friday not to be categorised as “other” in the upcoming census, claiming they are “bona fide citizens” and entitled to be recognised as an ethnic minority group in Burma.

    Analysis

    Burma’s troublesome census

    As the country plans for its first official census in decades, several hurdles must be overcome if all of Burma’s ethnic minority groups are to be included

    News Politics

    Census risks marginalising Rohingya

    Burma’s landmark census planned for 2014 is likely to exclude the country’s Rohingya minority group, whom have been denied citizenship for nearly 30 years

    News Politics

    Bangladesh rejects UN help for Rohingya

    Dhaka official says aid money would ‘increase tension between Rohingya and locals’ as rights groups criticise Bangladeshi polciy to refugees

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