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Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar

The suicide rate began rising during the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued to increase since the coup as financial hardship, political repression and the collapse of the healthcare system take a toll on mental health.

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Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar

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‘We don’t want to live in cities’: rural migrants face harassment

Residents of conflict-wracked Sagaing and Magway regions who have left for the relative safety of big cities face challenges that include discrimination, harassment and barriers to their children’s education.

BY Frontier

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Chinese energy companies lobby junta to import Russian gas

A leaked junta memo shows three Chinese firms appealing to Nay Pyi Taw to arrange liquified natural gas imports from Russia amid economic turmoil in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Ko Kaung Htet, right, on a reporting trip with the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2016. (Sai Zaw Theik)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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Some 65,000 displaced in Myanmar’s Rakhine, Chin states since January: UN expert

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Rakhine and Chin states this year, as the military battles the Arakan Army, a UN rights expert said Monday.

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600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at 'serious risk of genocide': UN

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600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at ‘serious risk of genocide’: UN

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a serious risk of genocide, UN investigators said Monday.

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Meet Mawlaik’s ‘colonial relic’

In a town on the Chindwin River lives an octogenarian who enjoys conversation with visitors and has some grim memories from World War II.

BY Oliver Slow

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‘It’s a pioneer project’: Frontier designs Myanmar’s first media membership programme

When Frontier Myanmar’s co-founder and CEO U Sonny Swe first heard the word “memberships” at a publishing conference two years ago, he didn’t pay much attention.

BY Frontier

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A champion of democracy returns to his motherland

Nearly 30 years after becoming head of a government-in-exile formed at a jungle base on the border with Thailand, Dr Sein Win has returned to Myanmar.

BY Nanda

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Out of the comfort zone

In conversation with Frontier publisher and chief executive officer U Sonny Swe.

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Banks, indebted companies and the big problem of non-performing loans

A comment by the Central Bank deputy governor in the Pyithu Hluttaw over non-performing loans has caused widespread consternation and resulted in a prompt clarification.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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The border post at Htee Khee: high hopes and jungle casinos

The Dawei Special Economic Zone has fuelled high hopes for a development boom at the Tanintharyi Region border post of Htee Khee, but the main business in the area is casinos at nearby jungle resorts.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

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An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

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‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

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Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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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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