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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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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Time honours Reuters journalists along with other 'guardians' of truth

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BY AFP

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Myanmar and India strengthen ties in key state visit

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BY AFP

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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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BY AFP

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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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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

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Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

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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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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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