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Treading carefully: KIO navigates rocky ethnic terrain in new territory

The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.

BY Frontier

Features

A ‘new chapter’? The future of rare earth mining under KIO rule

Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.

BY Frontier

Features

Frontier CEO Sonny Swe announces plan to step down

Frontier co-founder Sonny Swe says he intends to step down as the company’s chief executive officer, after almost a decade in the role.

BY Frontier

Features

Babel Rap: How a transnational hip hop collective is rapping against Myanmar’s dictatorship

Producer-emcee Kan Kyi draws on his roots to unite a diverse crew of emcees to say in Chiang Mai what often can’t be said in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Fake medicine, fake cure

Vendors of fake medicine and faith healers are using spurious claims to prey on desperate people of limited means who have been diagnosed with cancer and other life-threatening diseases.

BY Htun Khaing

Interview, Features

Now is best time for the military to build trust’

Frontier speaks to Ko Ye Myo Hein, executive director of the Tagaung Institute of Political Studies, about how to end decades of enmity between soldiers and democrats.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Affairs, Features

Exhausted by war, Kachin IDPs in rebel areas see aid dwindle

Some 40,000 displaced Kachins have now spent five years in camps in remote, KIA-controlled mountains, where humanitarian aid deliveries have dwindled.

BY Myanmar Now

News, Affairs, Features

Keeping democracy in check

With Daw Aung San Suu Kyi at the helm, can the NLD strike a balance between the various branches of government?

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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.

News Feed, News

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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