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Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off

Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.

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Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off

Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.

BY Frontier

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Conflict, uncertainty hang over Mogok’s gemstone industry

Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.

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Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah State reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team of medics to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.

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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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Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar's Rakhine

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Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine

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Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar’s Rakhine

A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations-marked vehicle was ambushed in Rakhine State.

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Podcast: Low-income workers in Sagaing prepare for the coronavirus

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BY Ei Ei Mon, Frontier & Win Zar Ni Aung

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Brotherhood of the wheel

In fairgrounds across Myanmar, Ferris wheels are turned by the muscle power of teams of young, agile men who form tight bonds in lives lived on the road.

BY Ivan Ogilvie

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The dream of a Kayan homeland

The Kayan New Land Party has not traded fire with the Tatmadaw for 26 years, but the armed group says it’s still striving to uplift the Kayan people and secure their autonomy.

BY Ashley South

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Community quarantine: On the rural frontline in the fight against COVID-19

Towns and villages across Myanmar have been guarding against COVID-19 by opening quarantine centres, but a government decision to exempt domestic travellers has potentially left them more vulnerable at a time of mass travel for Thingyan.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn, Ye Mon & Naw Betty Han

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Myanmar to release 25,000 prisoners amid virus fears

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60 Rohingya die, hundreds rescued from boat after weeks at sea

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Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

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Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

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‘An incredible generosity of spirit’: Remembering Paul Minoletti

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International aid should support revolutionary education, not junta schools

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Human Rights Defenders: The Women’s Rights Activist

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‘People are basically hostages’: No way out for civilians in Sittwe

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‘I just want this to be over’: Conflict IDPs displaced yet again by floods

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Sport brings mental health boosts for exiled and migrant youths

Opinion

Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

Opinion

Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

Opinion

‘An incredible generosity of spirit’: Remembering Paul Minoletti

Opinion

International aid should support revolutionary education, not junta schools

Doh Athan

Human Rights Defenders: The Women’s Rights Activist

Doh Athan

‘People are basically hostages’: No way out for civilians in Sittwe

Doh Athan

‘I just want this to be over’: Conflict IDPs displaced yet again by floods

Doh Athan

Sport brings mental health boosts for exiled and migrant youths

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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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