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Debt nightmare crushes dreams of a better life for poor farmers

Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

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Debt nightmare crushes dreams of a better life for poor farmers

Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.

BY Charles Petrie & Ashley South

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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The Dawei Chaung dump in Yangon's North Dagon Township is seen on December 15, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

Plastic and the pandemic

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

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Inspirational women from civil society and government win US embassy award

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BY Su Myat Mon

Business, Features

Tourism sector still desperate for talent

Tourism has seen substantial growth in Myanmar, but industry insiders argue that a lack of an industry training standard is proving a hindrance to service quality.

BY Katrin Schregenberger

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ပင်နီတို့ရဲ့အာဏာတစ်ရပ် တစ်ပါးသူလက် အပ်နှင်းလိုက်တဲ့အခါ

နိုင်ငံတော်အင်္ဂါစဉ်မှာ နံပါတ် (၅)နေရာရှိပြီး အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေနဲ့ကြုံလာရရင် တိုင်းပြည်စီမံ ခန့်ခွဲမှုကို အဓိကတာဝန်ယူရမယ့် အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးနှင့် လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီရဲ့ အဖွဲ့ဝင်တစ်ဦးအဖြစ်လည်း တာဝန်ရှိတဲ့ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ရာထူးကို အာဏာရပါတီဝင်မဟုတ်သူတစ်ဦးထံ အပ်နှင်းလိုက်တဲ့ ကိစ္စအပေါ် ပူပန်သူတွေ ရှိနေပါတယ်။

BY Frontier

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U Htin Kyaw resignation ‘planned in advance’, wife says

Daw Su Su Lwin, the wife of outgoing president U Htin Kyaw has denied reports that her husband retired this week due to poor health.

BY Frontier

News Feed, Breaking News, News

Parliament elects U Win Myint as Vice President, ahead of presidential vote next week

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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U Htin Kyaw resignation 'planned in advance', wife says

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Bizfeed, Business

Fraser & Neave returns to Myanmar’s beer market

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BY Frontier

Affairs

Myaing Gyi Ngu's uneasy peace in Kayin State

While the people of Kayin State have largely benefited from the decision by three Karen armed groups to sign the Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement in 2015, conflict and religious tension remain a fact of life in the DKBA-controlled Myaing Gyi Ngu region.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Reuters journalists clock up 100 days in jail

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BY AFP

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

Doh Athan

Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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