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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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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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Hungry and homeless: IDPs in Rakhine just want to go home

Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.

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Soaring fuel prices hit transport sector as living costs jump

Another jump in fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine has brought extra suffering for the people of Myanmar as they struggle with economic fallout from the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.

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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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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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One year on, families of Reuters journalists hope for release

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

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Myanmar and India strengthen ties in key state visit

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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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‘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.

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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.

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Myanmar seizes heroin haul worth $4.7 million: police

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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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