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‘It was all lies’: Myanmar’s military widows denied pensions and payouts

There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

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‘It was all lies’: Myanmar’s military widows denied pensions and payouts

There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Bangladesh, the Rohingya and the new reality in Rakhine

Bangladesh’s interim government has lobbied successfully for an international conference on the Rohingya. But for repatriation to have any chance of moving forward, organisers need to consider the rise of the Arakan Army.

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The fighting peacock: Myanmar’s NLD on the front lines

Members of the former ruling party have followed different paths since the 2021 coup, with some lying low and others taking up arms, while the continued imprisonment and recent deaths of party leaders raise questions about its future.

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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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Myanmar army's 'business empire' fuels atrocities: UN probe

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Myanmar army’s ‘business empire’ fuels atrocities: UN probe

Tougher sanctions are needed against Myanmar's wealthy and powerful military as its web of economic interests has generated a fortune that helps fund atrocities, UN investigators said Monday.

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Time for a serious chat about Yangon's colonial heritage

Hungry for a Martyrs’ Chicken Meal? Or perhaps a colonial doughnut combo?

BY Frontier

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Time for a serious chat about Yangon’s colonial heritage

Yangon’s most iconic building will soon be host to an unsavoury mix of historical remembrance and global consumer capitalism.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Integration should not be a one-way street

It’s time for us to embrace the idea that you can wear a beard, kurta or hijab, and have a Muslim name, and still be fully Burmese.

BY Than Toe Aung

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Episode 88: Human trafficking into China

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

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The Belt and Road Initiative in Myanmar: staring down the dragon

Myanmar needs to enact a series of measures to ensure that Belt and Road Initiative projects benefit the nation and its citizens as much as they do big Chinese companies.

BY Aung Zin Phyo Thein

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Drug lab raids in Myanmar’s meth capital met with artillery fire

Raids on jungle methamphetamine labs have been met with heavy artillery fire, Myanmar narcotics police said Thursday.

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Mandalay: City of the future?

An energetic mayor and revamped municipal authority are giving Myanmar’s second city a tech-based makeover, which is being embraced by residents tired of past mismanagement.

BY Hein Thar

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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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