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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

The junta says the population count will help prepare for an election but it’s more likely meant to flush out dissidents, in an exercise that is destined to flop.

BY Frontier

Features

Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady

As fighting spreads to southern Rakhine, thousands have fled for neighbouring Ayeyarwady, where they’ve had a frosty reception as the junta tightens security in one of its few remaining stable strongholds.

BY Frontier

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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)

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'Playing for beauty and playing to fight': Myanmar's martial arts

Veterans of Myanmar’s traditional martial arts, or thaing, fear for its future but hope it can replicate the revival and growing international reach of other Southeast Asian fighting forms.

BY Hein Thar

Features, Culture

Playing for beauty and playing to fight’: Myanmar’s martial arts

Veterans of Myanmar’s traditional martial arts, or thaing, fear for its future but hope it can replicate the revival and growing international reach of other Southeast Asian fighting forms.

BY Hein Thar

Features, Culture

Review: ‘A Country, A Town, A Human’ at Myanm/art

An exhibition by Yangon multimedia artist Khin Thet Htar Latt leaves Frontier’s art critic thoughtful but wanting more.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

The government’s pointless battles with ethnic activists

By picking unnecessary battles with ethnic activists, the government is laying fertile ground for resurgent ethnic parties to win over voters who plumped for the NLD four years ago.

BY Frontier

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Discord and manoeuvring over ‘national security’

The reluctance of the government to convene the powerful National Defence and Security Council has attracted the ire of the Tatmadaw and the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Volunteer ambulance crews brave bullets to save lives

Volunteers with community service ambulances in northern Shan State are taking big risks to help others in conflict zones – and sometimes pay with their lives.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Thousands evicted as Kayin govt cracks down on armed group-linked housing project

An officer in the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army is in custody over a housing project in Myawaddy Township that has left several thousand people out of pocket.

BY Naw Betty Han

News Feed, News

Bare knuckles to knockout record for Myanmar woman breaking MMA mould

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ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရ၊စောညီညီနှင့်ရွှေမြစန္ဒီ

အိမ်ယာစီမံကိန်းဖော်ဆောင်သူ ဒီကေဘီအေအရာရှိလည်းအဖမ်းခံရပြီး ရွှေမြစန္ဒီအိမ်ယာတွင်နောက်ဆက်တွဲပြဿနာများစွာတက်ခဲ့ကာ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရပါခေါင်းကိုက်ခဲ့ရသည်။

BY Naw Betty Han

Opinion

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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