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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.

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‘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.

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Election authorities lament low voter turnout

The number of people who voted in the April 1 by-election fell significantly from 2015, and there are calls for more to be done to drum up interest ahead of the 2020 national poll.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Myanmar 101: British Burma

A short guide to the events, politics and legacy of Burma’s decades under British India.

BY Jared Downing

Putting students first at Phaung Daw Oo

The largest monastic school in the country has more than 9,000 students, and while the curriculum is the same as the state sector, the approach is vastly different.

BY Oliver Slow

North Korea’s carnage at the mausoleum

The poisoning of Kim Jong-un's half-brother in Malaysia came more than 30 years after Pyongyang sent assassins to Yangon to try to kill the South Korean president.

BY Frontier

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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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