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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

BY Frontier

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New sheriffs in town: Brotherhood takes charge

After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.

BY Frontier

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A world apart: Myanmar-Chinese find a home in Taiwan

A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.

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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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Picking up speed on Yangon’s Circular Railway

Yangon’s Circular Railway is receiving a much-needed upgrade, but efforts to control vendors risk depriving hundreds of people of their livelihoods.

BY Hein Thar

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Electricity price hike fuels demand for solar power in Myanmar

A recent electricity price hike has fuelled optimism among companies selling rooftop solar systems to factories, but a lack of knowledge and financing challenges continue to hold back sales.

BY Thomas Kean

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As fishing ban ends, authorities urged to tackle illegal boats

A precipitous decline in fishery resources prompted a three-month ban on all offshore fishing in Myanmar waters, but members of industry and civil society groups say more needs to be done to combat rampant illegal fishing.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Some 65,000 displaced in Myanmar's Rakhine, Chin states since January: UN expert

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Some 65,000 displaced in Myanmar’s Rakhine, Chin states since January: UN expert

Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Rakhine and Chin states this year, as the military battles the Arakan Army, a UN rights expert said Monday.

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600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at 'serious risk of genocide': UN

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600,000 Rohingya still in Myanmar at ‘serious risk of genocide’: UN

Rohingya Muslims remaining in Myanmar still face a serious risk of genocide, UN investigators said Monday.

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Meet Mawlaik’s ‘colonial relic’

In a town on the Chindwin River lives an octogenarian who enjoys conversation with visitors and has some grim memories from World War II.

BY Oliver Slow

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‘It’s a pioneer project’: Frontier designs Myanmar’s first media membership programme

When Frontier Myanmar’s co-founder and CEO U Sonny Swe first heard the word “memberships” at a publishing conference two years ago, he didn’t pay much attention.

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International aid should support revolutionary education, not junta schools

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Mourning James C. Scott, a Sterling anarchist and friend of Myanmar

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Staying online in Myanmar is a matter of life and death

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Searching for truth and rice in America

Doh Athan

Palm oil workers risk injury with little support available

Doh Athan

Disabled resistance fighters need more long-term support

Doh Athan

Rakhine IDPs in Yangon struggle with bureaucracy and living costs

Doh Athan

Young women fleeing conscription making ‘impressive’ PDF soldiers

Opinion

International aid should support revolutionary education, not junta schools

Opinion

Mourning James C. Scott, a Sterling anarchist and friend of Myanmar

Opinion

Staying online in Myanmar is a matter of life and death

Opinion

Searching for truth and rice in America

Doh Athan

Palm oil workers risk injury with little support available

Doh Athan

Disabled resistance fighters need more long-term support

Doh Athan

Rakhine IDPs in Yangon struggle with bureaucracy and living costs

Doh Athan

Young women fleeing conscription making ‘impressive’ PDF soldiers

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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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