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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

BY Frontier

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New sheriffs in town: Brotherhood takes charge

After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.

BY Frontier

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A world apart: Myanmar-Chinese find a home in Taiwan

A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.

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)

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Miss Ethnic Myanmar pageant belies minorities’ woes

A Miss Ethnic Myanmar beauty pageant brought an end to a festival celebrating the country's ethnic minorities, even as the military remains locked in conflict with many groups.

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Ko Ni murder trial reaches climax

A Yangon court will soon deliver judgment against four men on trial over the killing of NLD legal adviser U Ko Ni, while the alleged mastermind remains at large.

BY Ye Mon

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On anniversary of U Ko Ni’s murder, Daw Aung San Suu Kyi calls for ‘truth’

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BY Ye Mon

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ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်အပြီး အမိန့်ချဖို့ နီးကပ်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ဦးကိုနီအမှု

ရှေ့နေကြီးဦးကိုနီကို လုပ်ကြံသတ်ဖြတ်မှုနဲ့ စွဲချက်တင်ခံထားရသူတွေကို စစ်ဆေးနေတာ ရုံးချိန်း ၁၀၀ ကျော်ရှိလာပြီဖြစ်ပြီး မကြာခင်မှာပဲ တရားရုံးက အမိန့်ချမှတ်တော့မှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

BY Ye Mon

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Myanmar's zero-tolerance drug policy is doomed to fail

Myanmar is not waging a war on drugs.

BY Frontier

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Drug cases and the stench of dirty money

Drug cases present opportunities for some lawyers and police to pocket handsome sums while perverting the course of justice.

BY Su Myat Mon & Ye Mon

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Myanmar’s zero-tolerance drug policy is doomed to fail

Myanmar is not waging a war on drugs. It is waging a war on the people who consume illicit drugs, and those who sell them in relatively small quantities.

BY Frontier

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A Russian Christmas in Myanmar

An intrepid American migrant attends a Christmas party at the Russian embassy. In place of sinister stereotypes, he finds J-Donuts and a blue Santa.

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Myanmar’s first LGBT pride boat parade sets sail

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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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