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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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Protesters wear flowers to mark Suu Kyi’s birthday

Anti-coup protesters donned flowers in their hair on Saturday to mark the birthday of the ousted civilian leader, who remains under house arrest and is due to face court again next week.

BY AFP

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Frontier Myanmar statement on Danny Fenster’s court appearance

Frontier Myanmar’s managing editor Danny Fenster today appeared in a special court in Yangon’s Insein Prison to face a charge under section 505-A of the Penal Code, which carries a potential three-year prison term.

BY Frontier

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Pandemic response leaves migrant workers in the cold

The military regime’s snap closure of the border with Thailand reflects its poor handling of the COVID-19 response, migrant rights groups say, but the Thai government and employers are also making life difficult for workers.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Rakhine reporters sidestep internet blackout

The suspension of mobile internet in parts of Rakhine State has not stopped local reporting on the conflict, but the toll taken on the welfare of ordinary people is considerable.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Government seeks to tame Hlaing Tharyar, Yangon’s wild west

The government is dividing Hlaing Tharyar into two townships, in a desperate bid to bring order to an industrial suburb beset by criminal gangs, shoddy infrastructure and over-population.

BY Hein Thar

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ခင်ပွန်းအား အမြန်ဆုံးပြန်လွှတ်ပေးရန် အဖမ်းခံထားရသောအမတ်၏ဇနီး တောင်းဆို

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ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော် (အေအေ)အဖွဲ့က ဖမ်းဆီးထားသော အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးဝှေ့တင်းကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးစေလိုကြောင်း ဇနီးဖြစ်သူ ဒေါ်ခင်အိဆင့်က နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၄ ရက်တွင် တောင်းဆိုသည်။

BY Lun Min Mang

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Wife of MP abducted by Arakan Army calls for his release

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BY Lun Min Mang

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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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