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CDM crunch: Striking doctors struggle to meet healthcare needs

The participation of tens of thousands of government medical personnel in the Civil Disobedience Movement has created gaps in healthcare that striking doctors and colleagues working at private hospitals are struggling to fill.

BY Frontier

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Teachers, students keep protests alive in ‘f***ing stubborn’ Monywa

Despite the dangers, protesters in the Sagaing Region capital say they will keep hitting the streets – to send a strong message to the people, the junta and the world, and to honour fallen comrades.

BY Frontier

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‘It was a massacre’: when state militias targeted Karen villages in Yangon

As tensions peaked between Karen and Bamar in early 1949, Burmese irregular forces committed a series of mass killings on the outskirts of the then-capital that have never been officially acknowledged.

BY Frontier

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Amid bombings and boycotts, a tentative return to school

In an Ayeyarwady Region town, the first day back at school was marked by low attendance and fear, with many parents resolving to keep their children at home.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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နိုင်ငံရေးတက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူ ပြစ်ဒဏ်ခံအမျိုးသမီးများ

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ ဒီမိုကရေစီကြိုးပမ်းမှုကို ထောက်ခံသည့်အတွက် ထောင်ဒဏ်ကျခံခဲ့ရသော အမျိုးသမီးများသည် သူတို့ခံစားရသည်ထက်ပို၍ အသိအမှတ် ပြုခံထိုက်ရှိသူများဖြစ်သည်။

BY Su Myat Mon

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B-boys: Celebrating a passion for dance

A dedicated group of youth known as the Session Breakerz is helping to reinvigorate the street dance scene in Myanmar.

BY Emily Fishbein

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‘Myanmar needs to ensure safe and efficient use of its airspace’

Debate is growing over Myanmar’s infrastructure needs in the aviation sector and whether there is an economic case for a proposed new airport near Yangon in the short-term.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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‘Skeletons covered in skin’: inside Myanmar’s labour camps

Ex-guards describe convicts perishing en masse from exhaustion, vicious beatings, and starvation at remote camps with no access to medical care.

BY Myanmar Now

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

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Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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