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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

Starlink troopers: Myanmar’s internet dilemma

This edition of Political Insider looks at the use of Starlink by various factions in the country, amid fears that service shutdowns aimed at scam centres might also affect civilians and resistance groups.

BY Frontier

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Energy minister returns to work amid corruption probe confusion

A complaint about the tender process for meters has sparked an investigation into corruption at the top of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

A deadly fight in Magway Region for the Ayeyarwady’s ‘gold’

Villagers in Magway Region have blamed a riverside clash that left at least 30 people dead on an inadequate response by government officials to a dispute over rich alluvial farmland.

BY Hein Thar

Beyond Myitsone: the sleeping Chipwi hydropower project

While national attention remains focused on the Myitsone dam, Frontier visits one of the six other mega-dams north of the Ayeyarwady River confluence that could resume if conflict between the Tatmadaw and Kachin Independence Organisation is resolved.

BY Ye Mon

Wild Waters: Mandalay

For the seventh instalment in our travel series about wild swimming spots, we visit the shimmering waterfalls, tranquil lakes and monsoon floodplains that surround the former royal capital.

BY Dominic Horner

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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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