Editorial

Junta’s difficulty is Myanmar’s opportunity

The military’s recent humiliations have injected new life into the resistance, making it more important than ever to build a united front.

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Editorial, Opinion

The Myanmar junta’s census heralds a totalitarian nightmare

The regime’s planned population count threatens to boost its powers of surveillance and leave dissidents with few places to hide.

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Editorial, Opinion

Righting wrongs in Myanmar requires justice – not retribution

Degrees of culpability must be carefully weighed to stop justice turning into vindictiveness, while those claiming authority need to come clean about their own past deeds.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar’s coup: Two years on but a long fight ahead

Resistance forces have humiliated coup leader Min Aung Hlaing but victory may require a lengthy struggle, and society must stay resilient in the meantime.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Editorial, Opinion

Now for the hard work

The National League for Democracy’s decision to shift the General Administration Department to the Ministry of the Office of the Union Government is an important step forward for civilian-led governance in Myanmar.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Editorial

Airplane mode

Few people actively use Twitter in Myanmar. Fewer had heard of Mr Jack Dorsey, one of the Silicon Valley social media company’s founders and its CEO – that is, until a December 8 Twitter thread by the American tech billionaire about his recent birthday trip to Myanmar.

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Editorial, Opinion

Twelve months too long

December 12 will mark one year to the day since Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested by police on the outskirts of Yangon. They have been behind bars ever since.

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Editorial, Opinion

Push and pull

The repatriation of Rohingya refugees from Bangladesh that was supposed to get underway on November 15 was always destined to fail given the present conditions in northern Rakhine State.

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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.

News Feed, News

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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