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Hitting the brakes: Junta cracks down on unlicensed vehicles

The Myanmar regime has launched a campaign to confiscate unlicensed cars and motorcycles, depriving owners who can’t afford licensed vehicles of essential transport, while avoiding tackling the corruption and policies that make legal vehicles too expensive for most people.

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Beyond Rakhine: Arakan Army advance brings hope and fear

The AA’s offensives into neighbouring regions together with its resistance allies have brought Myanmar’s civil war to new corners of the country – and put the group within striking distance of key munitions factories.

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‘Hard to breathe’: Myanmar communities forced to live among world’s trash

Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway around the world.

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Alleged child rape case in Ayeyarwady orphanage sparks outrage

A controversial organisation that runs monastic schools and orphanages across Myanmar is back in the spotlight after allegedly trying to cover up the rape of a five-year-old girl at one of its centres.

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Court frees dozens of student protesters

BY Oliver Slow

NLD pushes through special adviser role for Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s president has signed a bill giving Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military.

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Change brings uncertainty for state media

State-run newspapers have spent most of the last 25 years excoriating or ignoring Daw Aung San Suu Kyi. Can they survive an NLD government?

BY Joshua Carroll & Mratt Kyaw Thu

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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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