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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, 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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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

BY Ye Myo Hein

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Channelling hate and disinformation: Myanmar’s bad actors move to Telegram

Since being banned from Facebook, some of the most prominent spreaders of hate speech and disinformation have moved to Telegram, and fact-checkers say the messaging app is doing little to regulate its platform.

BY Andrew Nachemson

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‘Workers have lost all their rights’: Coup and third wave leave factory workers at risk

Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.

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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ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်အပြီး အမိန့်ချဖို့ နီးကပ်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ဦးကိုနီအမှု

ရှေ့နေကြီးဦးကိုနီကို လုပ်ကြံသတ်ဖြတ်မှုနဲ့ စွဲချက်တင်ခံထားရသူတွေကို စစ်ဆေးနေတာ ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်ပြီး မကြာခင်မှာပဲ တရားရုံးက အမိန့်ချမှတ်တော့မှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

BY Ye Mon

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar's zero-tolerance drug policy is doomed to fail

Myanmar is not waging a war on drugs.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Drug cases and the stench of dirty money

Drug cases present opportunities for some lawyers and police to pocket handsome sums while perverting the course of justice.

BY Su Myat Mon & Ye Mon

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar’s zero-tolerance drug policy is doomed to fail

Myanmar is not waging a war on drugs. It is waging a war on the people who consume illicit drugs, and those who sell them in relatively small quantities.

BY Frontier

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A Russian Christmas in Myanmar

An intrepid American migrant attends a Christmas party at the Russian embassy. In place of sinister stereotypes, he finds J-Donuts and a blue Santa.

BY Backpage

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Myanmar’s first LGBT pride boat parade sets sail

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BY AFP

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Weavers of traditional textiles in Mandalay unite

Weavers of traditional textiles in Mandalay Region have joined forces in an attempt to counter a threat to the industry from cheap copies imported from China and India.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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UN expert urges caution on Bangladesh's Rohingya island 'relocation' plan

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BY AFP

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LGBT အရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှုတွေ ပိုမို အားကောင်းလာ

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ LGBT အသိုင်းအဝိုင်းက ရင်ဆိုင်နေရတဲ့ စိန်ခေါ်မှုတွေ ရှိနေသေးပေမယ့် ပြောင်းလဲလာတဲ့ လက္ခဏာတွေလည်း ရှိနေပါတယ်။

BY Hein Ko Soe & Win Zar Ni Aung

Opinion

Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

Opinion

Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

News Feed, Education, Opinion

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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