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As COVID-19 surges, prices of medical goods follow suit

Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.

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As COVID-19 surges, prices of medical goods follow suit

Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.

BY Frontier

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The NUG’s Rohingya policy: ‘Campaign statement’ or genuine reform?

The National Unity Government’s plan to end discrimination against the Rohingya and replace the 1982 Citizenship Law could face opposition from among its own supporters – if the parallel government gets the chance to implement it.

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‘A threat to the revolution’: Pyusawhti returns to post-coup Myanmar

A network of hardline, pro-military groups known as Pyusawhti is doing its best to spread terror among the population as it fights a dirty war against the democratic forces resisting the coup.

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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Thousands protest jailing of activists in Myitkyina

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ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်များကို အခြားသော “အမှန်တရား စောင့်ရှောက်သူများ”နှင့်အတူ တိုင်းမ်က ဂုဏ်ပြု

ပြီးခဲ့သည့် အောက်တိုလာလက တူရကီနိုင်ငံ၊ အစ္စတန်ဘူလ်ရှိ ဆော်ဒီအာရေးဗီးယာနိုင်ငံ ကောင်စစ်ဝန်ရုံးတွင် သတ်ဖြတ်ခံရသည့် ဆော်ဒီဂျာနယ်လစ် ဂျမားလ်ခါရှော့ဂီနှင့် တခြားပစ်မှတ်ထားခံရသည့် ဂျာနယ်လစ်များအား အမှန်တရားကို ကာကွယ်စောင့်ရှောက်သူများအဖြစ် အသိအမှတ်ပြုသည့်အနေဖြင့် တိုင်းမ်မဂ္ဂဇင်းက Person of the Year (တစ်နှစ်တာ သြဇာအလွှမ်းမိုးဆုံးပုဂ္ဂိုလ်)အဖြစ် ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က ရွေးချယ်လိုက်သည်

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Time honours Reuters journalists along with other ‘guardians’ of truth

Time published four different magazine covers for this week's edition, each one spotlighting different honorees of its "Person of the Year" prize that has been awarded annually since 1927.

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‘Pure protectionism’: Tour operators lament Dawei motorbike ban

A recent tourism ministry order to companies in Dawei not to rent motorbikes to foreign visitors threatens to derail the town’s status as an emerging tourism destination.

BY Oliver Slow

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Twelve months too long

December 12 will mark one year to the day since Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested by police on the outskirts of Yangon. They have been behind bars ever since.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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Myanmar seizes heroin haul worth $4.7 million: police

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Fixing justice with the tools at hand

How to radically improve criminal procedure in Myanmar without spending much money or having to rewrite any laws.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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တရုတ်နိုင်ငံ၌ မြန်မာအမျိုးသမီး ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာ အတင်းအကြပ် လက်ထပ်ခြင်း ခံနေရ

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမြောက်ပိုင်းမှ အားနွဲ့သော အမျိုးသမီးနှင့် မိန်းကလေးငယ် ထောင်ပေါင်းများစွာမှာ တရုတ်ပြည်သို့ ကုန်ကူးခံရပြီး အတင်းအကြပ် လက်ထပ်ခြင်း ခံနေရသည်ဟု ဒီဇင်ဘာ ၇ ရက်နေ့က အစီရင်ခံစာတစ်စောင်၌ ဖော်ပြထားသည်။

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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

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The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

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Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

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The NUG must commit to human rights for all Myanmar’s people

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A crisis of confidence looms over Myanmar’s banks

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Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

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Video: Below the poverty line

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Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

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Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

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Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

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Video: Below the poverty line

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Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

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Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

Latest Issue

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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