MYAWADDY, Myanmar: With only meagre belongings stuffed into backpacks and duffel bags, tens of thousands of Myanmar migrants have streamed home across the Thai border over the past two weeks. But it is not a joyous homecoming for the truckloads of men and women, who fled Thailand in fear of a new law that hardens […]
Myanmar workers in Thailand victims of a broken system
July 18, 2017 by Thiha
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Health Ministry Stands Firm as Nursing Students Protest Delayed Licensing
March 26, 2017 by thiha
RANGOON — Policy that requires graduate nurses to serve at public hospitals for three years aims to tackle severe shortage of nurses and midwives at government medical service facilities, the Ministry of Health and Sports said on Thursday. Several hundred students from Rangoon’s University of Nursing took to the streets on Wednesday protesting against […]
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