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CDM crunch: Striking doctors struggle to meet healthcare needs

The participation of tens of thousands of government medical personnel in the Civil Disobedience Movement has created gaps in healthcare that striking doctors and colleagues working at private hospitals are struggling to fill.

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Teachers, students keep protests alive in ‘f***ing stubborn’ Monywa

Despite the dangers, protesters in the Sagaing Region capital say they will keep hitting the streets – to send a strong message to the people, the junta and the world, and to honour fallen comrades.

BY Frontier

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‘It was a massacre’: when state militias targeted Karen villages in Yangon

As tensions peaked between Karen and Bamar in early 1949, Burmese irregular forces committed a series of mass killings on the outskirts of the then-capital that have never been officially acknowledged.

BY Frontier

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Amid bombings and boycotts, a tentative return to school

In an Ayeyarwady Region town, the first day back at school was marked by low attendance and fear, with many parents resolving to keep their children at home.

BY Frontier

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The right to demonstrate? It depends who you are

Democracy activists who protest for peace risk a beating and time in jail but it’s a different story when hardline nationalists gather to express their views.

BY Su Myat Mon

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Myanmar migrant women find solace from domestic abuse

Trapped in a life of fear and violence, Myanmar migrant women on the Thai border find refuge at a support group organised by a fledgling non-profit organisation.

BY Jared Downing

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Independents cry foul over party logos in YCDC election

Independent candidates in the recent Yangon municipal election blame their losses on the decision to allow political party logos during the campaign and on ballot papers, as the head of the election commission concedes to Frontier that the contest between candidates was not fair.

BY Ye Mon & Su Myat Mon

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Nagaland: a frontier, for now

The Naga Self-Administered Zone on the border with India is poor and isolated, but a new bridge and upgraded roads carry promises of development. Meanwhile, its administrative autonomy is likely to remain limited.

BY Victoria Milko

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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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