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Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.

BY Frontier

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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

BY Frontier

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New sheriffs in town: Brotherhood takes charge

After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.

BY Frontier

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A world apart: Myanmar-Chinese find a home in Taiwan

A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.

BY Frontier

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‘The disease still scares me’: A day with the COVID-19 testing team

Each morning, a medical team visits people in quarantine to collect swabs that will be tested for COVID-19. It’s hard, uncomfortable work that carries the constant risk of infection.

BY Hein Thar & Hkun Lat

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‘There are no jobs for them here’: Mon State economy in COVID-19 freefall

Land sales have crashed and so have prices for rubber and seafood in Mon State, where many farmers and fishers are wondering how they are going to survive.

BY Frontier

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Is COVID-19 a smokescreen for labour abuses?

Labour activists say they are being dragged unjustly before the courts and that factory owners are exploiting the disruption caused by COVID-19 to purge union leaders.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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No air quality dividend for Yangon amid COVID-19

Even as factories close and many people stay home, air pollution in Yangon has remained stubbornly bad, and the agriculture sector may hold the answer.

BY Eaint Thet Su

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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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