Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.
Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.
The Karen Border Guard Force is providing the military with frontline soldiers in exchange for business protection, allowing its “new city” project to emerge as a hub for online scams.
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The coup is worsening the long-standing tendency to judge cultural output – and film in particular – based on moral convictions.
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Escalating fighting, bitter and growing ethnic tensions and mysterious killings are blighting Rakhine State, and the situation is unlikely to improve any time soon.
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BY Ye Mon
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Yangon holds its first municipal elections in more than 60 years with universal adult suffrage, but most residents stay shy of the polling stations.
ရန်ကုန်မြို့တော်စည်ပင်သာယာရေးကော်မတီ အဆင့်ဆင့် ရွေးကောက်တင်မြှောက်ပွဲကို ရန်ကုန်မြို့တွင် ယနေ့ (မတ် ၃၁ ရက်)က ကျင်းပခဲ့ရာ စိတ်ဝင်စားသူနည်းပါးခဲ့ပြီး မဲစာရင်းတွင် အမည်မပါရှိသဖြင့် မဲပေးခွင့်မရသူများလည်းရှိခဲ့သလို မဲသွားရောက်မပေးခဲ့သူ အများအပြားရှိခဲ့သည်။
Train-loving photographers are helping to keep Myanmar’s last steam locomotives rolling but not for much longer, thanks to big-budget railway upgrades.
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The deputy leader of the Arakan Army tells Frontier in the border town of Laiza in Kachin State about the group’s shift in focus to Rakhine State and why the Rakhine people may have to endure more suffering in the years ahead.
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