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‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.

BY Frontier

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‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Opinion

The Tatmadaw can’t turn back the clock on Myanmar’s news industry

The military’s media bans, mass arrests and newsroom raids may have left newsstands barren, but professional and citizen journalists will continue recording the regime’s crimes.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, News, Features

‘Any news from the internet?’: Fear and rumour in villages forced offline

With most internet access cut, one Frontier reporter struggles to keep their Ayeyarwady Region village informed while dictating stories to editors in Yangon by phone.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

In northern Rakhine State, a standoff over citizenship guarantees

A standoff over citizenship guarantees and concerns about safety have diminished the likelihood of large-scale repatriation, with government officials saying Rohingya demands are “impossible”.

BY Su Myat Mon

Backpage, Opinion

Welcome to Maungdaw

A media trip to northern Rakhine State becomes an exercise in government obstruction and disorganisation.

BY Su Myat Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Asian Highway 1 revisited

In Kayin State, the upgrade of one of the country’s most important highways has been brought to a standstill and the blame game is in full swing.

BY Thomas Kean

News Feed, News

Rohingya sent back to Myanmar camps in 'acute need': UNHCR

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BY AFP

News Feed, News

Department units to ramp up president’s anti-corruption drive

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BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News

Thousands of women from Shan, Kachin forced into marriage in China, says study

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BY AFP

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ပြည်တွင်း လက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခများမှာ အစိုးရနှင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားများအကြား ဖြစ်နေခြင်းဟု တပ်ချုပ် ပြောကြား

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် လက်ရှိအချိန်အထိ ဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ပြည်တွင်းလက်နက်ကိုင်ပဋိပက္ခများမှာ တပ်မတော်နှင့် ဖြစ်ပွားခြင်းမဟုတ်ဟု တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေးဦးစီးချုပ်က ပြောကြားလိုက်သည်။

BY Frontier

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အစိုးရဌာနများအတွင်း အဂတိလိုက်စားမှု တားဆီးရေးအတွက် တားဆီးရေးအဖွဲ့များဖွဲ့ရန် သမ္မတခွင့်ပြု

အစိုးရဝန်ကြီးဌာနများနှင့် အခြားသောဌာနများအတွင်း ပျံ့နှံ့နေသည့် အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုများကို တားဆီးကာကွယ်ရေး အတွက် အဂတိလိုက်စားမှု တားဆီးကာကွယ်ရေးအဖွဲ့များကို သမ္မတဦးဝင်းမြင့်က ဖွဲ့စည်းခွင့်ပြုလိုက်သည်။

BY Frontier

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Kachin youth activists handed prison sentences for ‘defaming’ the Tatmadaw

Three Kachin youth activists who led anti-war protests earlier this year in Myitkyina were each sentenced on Friday to six months in prison and fined K500,000.

BY Ye Mon

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

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Podcast: Children caught in conflict (English)

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

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Podcast: Children caught in conflict (English)

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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.

News Feed, News

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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‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

The Tatmadaw can’t turn back the clock on Myanmar’s news industry