YANGON, Myanmar: A total of 500 people have been hospitalised for severe diarrhoea in Myanmar's largest city, a Yangon official said on Monday (Aug 17), with nearly 150 testing positive for cholera.

Myanmar’s infrastructure and health sector are creaking after more than five years of civil war – in which more than 100,000 people are estimated to have been killed – and with the economy moribund.

Civil war and military rule have weakened Myanmar’s health care system, while heavy monsoon rains have increased the risk of waterborne disease. By Jin Yu Young At least 93 patients have tested ...

The establishment of the Yangon Stock Exchange (YSX) in 2015 was a beacon of Myanmar’s deepening economic liberalisation. Moving in tandem with political liberalisation, its launch by the outgoing ...