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‘Recovery will take time’: Sagaing Region grapples with floods

Farmers in many areas of central Myanmar have seen their crops destroyed by massive floods, with the regime impeding humanitarian assistance and the resistance struggling to cope with the disaster.

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‘There are so many needs’: Humanitarian crisis grips Rakhine-Magway border

Fighting between the regime and the resistance in mountainous areas of western Magway Region bordering Rakhine State has made life even more difficult for residents of remote villages long overlooked by aid organisations.

BY Frontier

Class war: The AA education system

This edition of Political Insider looks at the education system established by the Arakan Army in its territories in Rakhine State and Chin State’s Paletwa Township.

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‘Every day I cry’: Rohingya vulnerable to exploitation in Malaysia

Rohingya refugees who have made perilous sea journeys from Myanmar and from refugee camps in Bangladesh face discrimination, harassment and detention in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries.

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Min Zin: ‘It is essential that the democratic transition not be derailed’

How effective was the conference in contributing towards the peace process?

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

New rules a fillip for microfinance sector

Microfinance lenders have broadly welcomed regulatory changes that will help them to increase equity and satisfy the huge demand for credit.

BY Thomas Kean & Hein Ko Soe

Community-driven development generates benefits, and criticism

A recent report says there are deficiencies in a $480 million World Bank-funded project to upgrade and empower rural communities that has brought positive change to millions of lives.

BY Jakob Krembzow

Yangon’s footpath fixers

The ubiquitous little repair shops that were a response to the poverty created by economic isolation are under pressure from municipal by-laws, modernisation and rising incomes.

BY Steve Tickner & Thi Ri Han

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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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