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UN: Half of Myanmar’s Population May Fall into Poverty by 2022 The URL has been copied to your clipboard 0:00 0:05:06 0:00 Pop-out player The United Nations says the effects of Myanmar’s political crisis and the coronavirus could push half the country’s population into poverty by 2022. The warning came in a report released last week by the U.N.’s Development Program (UNDP). It said as many as 25 million people, or nearly half the population, is in danger of dropping into poverty. Both COVID-19 and the country’s ongoing political crisis “are pushing the most vulnerable back and more deeply into poverty, the UNDP’s Kanni Wignaraja told Reuters. She is Assistant U.N. Secretary-General and leads UNDP’s operations in Asia. ....
'Spirit To Fight': Inside The Labor, Minority Rights Roots Of Myanmar's Protests wfsu.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from wfsu.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'Myanmar is like a battlefield': UN says at least 18 dead as security forces fire on protesters msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
'Myanmar is like a battlefield': UN says at least 18 dead as security forces fire on protesters msn.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from msn.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Myanmar s military interim government is ordering people off the streets. | STR / AFP Myanmar’s popular leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, who has been in custody since the country’s military seized power in a coup on February 1, has been charged with a new crime: that of violating the country’s national disaster management law. It is a proof, if any were needed, of the extent to which the country’s military leaders are willing to subvert the Covid-19 crisis to their own ends. The new charge carries a maximum three-year prison sentence. But an amendment to Myanmar’s penal code instituted by the junta on February 14 permits the army to detain people without having to go to court. ....