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    Calls for crackdown on child beggars in Mandalay

    City official acknowledges there has been a marked increase in the number of children begging at junctions and traffic lights around central Mandalay, and said it was down to “economic problems”.

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    Mandalay threatens beggars with arrest

    Crackdown expected on beggars as authorities prepare to clean up image of Burma’s second city prior to influx of tourists

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    Rape avoidance 101: Government advice on curbing sexual assault elicits scorn

    The Home Affairs Ministry has been blasted for re-enforcing harmful assumptions about gender-based violence after it released a document positing that women consuming alcohol was among the leading causes of the rape of women and children.

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    Burma Army leaves wounded veterans to languish in poverty

    An untold number of disabled veterans live in army-built communities, struggling to support their families on government allowances.

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    Burma’s elders forced onto the streets

    In Rangoon, the high cost of living has forced more and more people onto the streets to beg – and increasingly many of them are elderly.

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    Activists harassed, threatened ahead of ASEAN summit

    Activists from across Southeast Asia have been harassed and intimidated by Cambodian authorities, in what has been described as an effort to silence civil society voices ahead of this weekend’s ASEAN summit in Phnom Penh

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