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Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis

Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.

BY Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw & Jaw Tu Hkawng

Science, News

Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis

Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.

BY Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw & Jaw Tu Hkawng

Features

Scam City: How the coup brought Shwe Kokko back to life

The Karen Border Guard Force is providing the military with frontline soldiers in exchange for business protection, allowing its “new city” project to emerge as a hub for online scams.

BY Frontier

Culture, Opinion

Sellouts and false prophets: Cinema in the Myanmar revolution

The coup is worsening the long-standing tendency to judge cultural output – and film in particular – based on moral convictions.

BY Frontier

Highlights

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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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Judicial graft case raises questions over suspect’s appointment

Yangon Region’s former chief legal official is a defendant in a high-profile corruption case that has left the NLD government with some explaining to do.

BY Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Investment ministry plan generates mixed reaction

Critics of the government’s move to form a ministry for attracting investment say it was needed years ago, but supporters say the negative comments are premature.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Activists demand the release of Reuters journalists after a year behind bars

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BY Ye Mon

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One year on, families of Reuters journalists hope for release

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BY Ye Mon

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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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BY AFP

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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

BY AFP

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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.

BY AFP

Opinion

Culture, Opinion

Sellouts and false prophets: Cinema in the Myanmar revolution

Editorial, Opinion

Editorial: By invoking the death penalty, the junta only condemns itself

Editorial, Opinion

Don’t help the junta rewrite history

Editorial, Opinion

Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

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‘We want a peaceful life’: Pauk residents live in fear

Doh Athan

Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

‘I don’t feel safe’

Doh Athan

The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

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‘We want a peaceful life’: Pauk residents live in fear

Doh Athan

Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

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‘I don’t feel safe’

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The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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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