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Myanmar’s largest city has been rocked by cholera in recent months – but the regime has largely covered up the outbreak by avoiding naming the disease and including confirmed cases in its tallies of acute watery diarrhoea.
An office run by volunteers in Lashio is supporting about 100 citizenship applications a month from members of a Chinese-speaking minority listed among the country’s 135 officially-recognised ethnic groups.

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