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Amid education boycotts, ethnic schools help to fill the gap

A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed groups to broaden and strengthen trust and understanding with the public.

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Amid education boycotts, ethnic schools help to fill the gap

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Regime seeks economic recovery, but drops NLD reform agenda

The military regime is set to drop meaningful structural reforms from an economic recovery plan initiated by the former National League for Democracy government, and is instead promising to slash red tape in a bid to shore up collapsing business confidence.

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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

A split in the Tatmadaw has until now been considered unlikely but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.

BY Ye Myo Hein

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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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Arrest warrant issued for Myanmar firebrand monk Wirathu

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Desperate Rohingya caught on cross-border narcotics runs: police

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Wanted Myanmar firebrand abbot ‘not afraid’ of arrest: local media

An ultra-nationalist monk known for his anti-Muslim vitriol said he was not afraid of arrest as police pursued him on charges of stirring up unrest.

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Armed and dangerous: Myanmar’s military goes shopping

Myanmar's military has lavished tens of millions of dollars on the latest lethal hardware, leaning on allies as part of a strategy to become a first-class fighting force.

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Myanmar frees soldiers jailed for Rohingya massacre

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Golden deer threatened by record heat and an army land grab

A failed cotton project by two crony companies, a Tatmadaw land grab and extreme temperatures this year have contributed to a crisis for the deer population in a central dry zone sanctuary.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Myanmar's fuel market: from fanfare to standstill

In 2017, the fuel market was opened up to foreign competition to great fanfare – so why have investors stayed away?

BY Thomas Kean

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Paddy fields of dreams: the Myanmar teen making way in women's football

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Paddy fields of dreams: the Myanmar teen making way in women’s football

Myanmar U-19 striker San Thaw Thaw fled from her family's paddy fields to follow her footballing dreams, inspired by her girlhood hero Wayne Rooney.

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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

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Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

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The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

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Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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Podcast: Locals battle checkpoints and movement restrictions in Dawei

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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Podcast: Locals battle checkpoints and movement restrictions in Dawei

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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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