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‘I wasn’t allowed to cry during the wedding’: Forced marriage in Kachin State

Poverty and lack of opportunities in a Kachin IDP camp are driving vulnerable girls into forced marriages with Chinese men, with brokers exploiting families desperate enough to sell their daughters to be trafficked across the border.

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After the flood: Heavy rain hits hard on Kachin’s border with China

Photojournalist Hkun Li documented the aftermath of deadly floods in Kachin State’s Waingmaw Township, an area already plagued by conflict and crippling blockades by the regime and China.

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In the thick of it: A photojournalist in Myanmar’s southern front

Photojournalist Mar Naw reflects on his travels earlier this year through southern Myanmar, where he documented a largely overlooked theatre of war.

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Inside the ‘liberated’ villages of Myanmar’s deep south

Pictures by photojournalist Mar Naw capture life in resistance-controlled areas of Tanintharyi Region, where anti-junta groups have established parallel health and education systems but also allowed harmful mining operations to continue.

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Kayin residents struggle against cement plant expansion

In rural Kayin State, residents are uniting against a military-owned corporation’s plan to expand cement production using coal power.

BY Su Myat Mon

From discourse to disrepair

A purpose-built camp north of Yangon that over three years housed delegates who laid the foundations for the 2008 Constitution has been abandoned to the forces of nature.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

YGN Punk!

A recent show in Yangon brought together members of the city’s growing punk community, who still face ostracism due to their lifestyle choices.

BY Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe

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

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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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