The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
BY Frontier
The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
BY Frontier
As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
BY Frontier
Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
BY Frontier
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Competition is finally coming to the aviation fuel business, with up to three companies planning to take on a state-backed monopoly and (possibly) deliver cheaper airfares for travellers.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
ရက္ခိုင့်တပ်မတော် (အေအေ)အဖွဲ့က ဖမ်းဆီးထားသော အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ဦးဝှေ့တင်းကို အမြန်ဆုံး ပြန်လွှတ်ပေးစေလိုကြောင်း ဇနီးဖြစ်သူ ဒေါ်ခင်အိဆင့်က နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၄ ရက်တွင် တောင်းဆိုသည်။
BY Lun Min Mang
An online discourse filled with falsehoods and bigotry is a symptom, not a cause, of Myanmar's toxic politics.
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A visit to the riverside slaughterhouses in Yangon’s Insein Township where pigs are butchered every night is an experience best avoided by the squeamish.
The fourth anniversary of the signing of the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement should have been a happy occasion but instead brimmed with poignant reminders of the nation’s greatest tragedy.
In countries undergoing a transition to democracy, deeply engrained social and intellectual tendencies are often at odds with idealistic international political norms.
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