A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.
BY Frontier
In a cruel chain reaction, some Moken youth have ended up working for the fishing fleets that are destroying the ecosystem that supported them over generations.
For one young woman, a train ride in Mon State in 2004 was the beginning of 13 years of misery as a human trafficking victim who was sold twice to lonely men in China.
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