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Trouble in the ‘Kachin gateway’: The regime advances in Sagaing

This edition of Political Insider looks at the recent military offensives in upper Sagaing Region, where the regime is regaining control of crucial routes leading to Kachin State.

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‘I’m supposed to go home’: Draftees face fears over extended military service

As Myanmar’s early conscripts reach the end of their mandatory two-year service, soldiers report that they are being refused discharge papers, paychecks are dwindling and their families are being left with no support.

BY Frontier

‘I thought it was over for us’: Civilians trapped in the crossfire in Bago

A regime attack on a resistance-held village tract in Myanmar’s Bago Region in March took the lives of dozens, while anti-junta fighters had to make tough decisions to protect civilians.

BY Frontier

Growing pains: Shan farmers seek alternatives to opium

Farmers in southern Shan State who once profited from opium cultivation are now facing falling prices, rising production costs and labour shortages, but switching to alternative crops poses major challenges.

BY Frontier

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Stockpiling and loans: Myanmar’s rice sector resilient to COVID-19

COVID-19 hasn't had a major impact on monsoon paddy planting, despite some farmers facing financial difficulties.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Expats eager to return, and biding their time

Foreign investors and staff who were outside Myanmar when commercial flights stopped in March are doing their best to manage businesses from afar but unsure when they’ll be able to return.

BY Thomas Kean

Myanmar’s stillborn radio industry

Myanmar’s FM stations provide little independent news to their audiences and this seems unlikely to change until the government finally begins implementing the 2015 Broadcasting Law.

BY Hein Thar

COVID-proofing the polls

Uncertainty over how the Union Election Commission will regulate campaigning and voting to account for the pandemic is crippling the ability of parties and civil society groups to plan for the election.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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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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