The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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Gutted buildings, vacant windows and blocks bombed to rubble show the price paid by Rakhine State’s Pauktaw town for victory against the junta in the country's civil war.
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In an extract from her new book, On the Shadow Tracks: A Journey through Occupied Myanmar, former Frontier editor Clare Hammond describes travelling to the Kayah State capital of Loikaw on a railway that was built in the 1990s with mass forced labour.
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Frontier reporter Hein Thar reflects on a recent journalism exchange trip to the United States, and his hopes for Myanmar’s own media development.
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Denied the chance to celebrate their union in their homeland, where LGBTQ people face persecution and imprisonment, a Myanmar queer couple seeks peace and happiness in the more tolerant kingdom next door.
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The United Nations warned on Friday that escalating fighting in conflict-torn Myanmar's Rakhine State had forced around 45,000 minority Rohingya to flee, amid allegations of killings and burnings of property.
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The Myanmar regime is mandating new biometric IDs for foreign travel and public services, in a move that could boost its surveillance powers, but a clumsy rollout is creating bottlenecks and fuelling illegal migration.
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Anna Joan Allott, who died last month aged 93, spent half a century schooling British diplomats in the Burmese language and studying its grammar, but her relationship with Myanmar started almost by accident.
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Central Myanmar has been gripped by an unprecedented heat wave, amid a brutal civil war that has seen public services collapse, while the military razes shelters and sabotages water supplies.
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Across the country, mental health patients face social stigma, inadequate care and even abuse – problems that have worsened since the post-coup healthcare collapse, but which long precede it.
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