Regime authorities appear to be increasingly abducting young men on the street or during household inspections to boost the number of military conscripts, while families and activists say bribes are no longer enough to free them.
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Regime authorities appear to be increasingly abducting young men on the street or during household inspections to boost the number of military conscripts, while families and activists say bribes are no longer enough to free them.
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Myanmar’s military regime has tried to recruit comedians in its propaganda war, but while some performers have chosen to serve the generals, many more are using their wit for the revolution.
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An amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Thailand offers hope for many Myanmar workers operating in the shadows, but the costs are high, and migrants then face burdensome tax demands from the Myanmar junta.
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Caught between an obstructive regime and bureaucratic inertia, the United Nations in Myanmar has struggled to fulfil its mandate since the 2021 coup.
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Resistance groups in Myanmar’s Mon State have been emboldened by the support of an ethnic splinter militia, but political divisions are still holding them back from building a united front.
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Tucked away in the mountains of western Cambodia are the remnants of a once-thriving Myanmar community known as the Kula, whose decline is a little-explored mystery involving gems, dreams and the Khmer Rouge.
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Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by Rakhine State’s Pauktaw town for victory against the junta in the country's civil war.
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In an extract from her new book, On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar, former Frontier editor Clare Hammond describes travelling to the Kayah State capital of Loikaw on a railway that was built in the 1990s with mass forced labour.
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Frontier reporter Hein Thar reflects on a recent journalism exchange trip to the United States, and his hopes for Myanmar’s own media development.
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Denied the chance to celebrate their union in their homeland, where LGBTQ people face persecution and imprisonment, a Myanmar queer couple seeks peace and happiness in the more tolerant kingdom next door.
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The United Nations warned on Friday that escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar's Rakhine State had forced around 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property.
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The Myanmar regime is mandating new biometric IDs for foreign travel and public services, in a move that could boost its surveillance powers, but a clumsy rollout is creating bottlenecks and fuelling illegal migration.
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