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Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

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Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

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Inside the junta’s war on student unions

Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.

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Rice exports dry up due to forex restrictions, rising prices

The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.

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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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Jailed Reuters reporters to launch last appeal to Myanmar court

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Myanmar’s LGBT community: between old laws and enduring stigma

Myanmar’s LGBT community is confronting out-dated laws that criminalise their personal lives and hostile attitudes fed by popular culture.

BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Hein Ko Soe

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Self-loathing expat New Year resolutions

This is the year you’re going to turn around your life in Myanmar. Because 2019 is the new 2018.

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Muse: Myanmar's militia-run, billion-dollar gateway to China

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Muse: Myanmar’s militia-run, billion-dollar gateway to China

A fiendishly complicated, decades-old struggle for money, trade, resources and ethnic identity is playing out in the Shan State border town of Muse.

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In boost for Myitsone, China advising govt on new hydropower policy

Sources have told Frontier that the Chinese government is advising the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on a white paper for hydropower policy at the same time as pressuring Myanmar to revive the long-stalled Myitsone dam.

BY Thomas Kean

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Miss Ethnic Myanmar pageant belies minorities' woes

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‘Barrier to democracy’: Parliament approves first step towards constitutional change

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BY Kyaw Lin Htoon & Sann Oo

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Miss Ethnic Myanmar pageant belies minorities’ woes

A Miss Ethnic Myanmar beauty pageant brought an end to a festival celebrating the country's ethnic minorities, even as the military remains locked in conflict with many groups.

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Terrorism by any other name

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Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

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Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

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Response to Ukraine underscores foot-dragging on Myanmar crisis

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

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Blood transfusions drying up

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Civilians under fire in Kayin conflict

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

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Blood transfusions drying up

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Civilians under fire in Kayin conflict

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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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