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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Features

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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

Backpage, Opinion

Behind the scenes in Yangonywood

Have you recently seen a Myanmar TV ad for body oil, spotted an impossibly handsome background extra, and launched a Cinderella-style citywide search to find him?

BY Jared Downing

Bizfeed, Photo Essays, Affairs, Business

Fool's gold: Thousands out of work as dispute shutters dozens of mines

A long-running dispute between the government and a mining company over a debt has shuttered dozens of gold mines in the Yamethin area of Mandalay Region, crippled small operators and left thousands out of work.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

Bizfeed, Photo Essays, Affairs, Business, Features

Fool’s gold: Thousands out of work as dispute shutters dozens of mines

A long-running dispute between the government and a mining company over a debt has shuttered dozens of gold mines, crippled small operators and left thousands out of work.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs

Govt losing hundreds of millions a year on SOE profit rules, report reveals

Rules introduced in 2012 have seen state-owned enterprises build up cash reserves of K11.45 trillion (US$8.6 billion) in accounts that earn no interest – money that governance experts say would be better spent on infrastructure or social services.

BY Thomas Kean

News, Affairs, Features

Nothing is impossible

Kan Htoo Aung has been disabled from birth but an indefatigable spirit has enabled him to overcome his handicap and devote his life to helping others.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed

အပစ်ရပ်စာချုပ်လက်မှတ်ထိုးရေး ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု FPNCC ပြောကြား

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး ပစ်ခတ်ခိုက်တိုက်မှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက် (NCA) အား လက်မှတ်မထိုးထားရသေးသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုကော်မတီ (FPNCC) အနေဖြင့် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရေးကိစ္စ ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ကေအိုင်အို) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဂွမ်မော်က ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Ye Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Three lives in Hpakant

The jade industry at Hpakant in Kachin State is a multi-billion-dollar business in which risk flows downhill, from the company bosses to the mid-level traders and, at the bottom, the itinerant miners known as yemase who risk their lives each day in the hope of striking it rich.

BY Daniel Combs

News, Affairs, Features

Empowering through sexual health knowledge

At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

BY Marysol Balane

News Feed, News

Episode 37: An after class culture

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

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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.

News Feed, News

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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