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Junta dragnet: More youth abducted in desperate conscription drive

Regime authorities appear to be increasingly abducting young men on the street or during household inspections to boost the number of military conscripts, while families and activists say bribes are no longer enough to free them.

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Junta dragnet: More youth abducted in desperate conscription drive

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No laughing matter: Meet the junta’s court jesters

Myanmar’s military regime has tried to recruit comedians in its propaganda war, but while some performers have chosen to serve the generals, many more are using their wit for the revolution.

BY Frontier

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Hard grind: Migrants in Thailand face steep costs to stay legal

An amnesty scheme for undocumented migrants in Thailand offers hope for many Myanmar workers operating in the shadows, but the costs are high, and migrants then face burdensome tax demands from the Myanmar junta.

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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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Govt stirs Rakhine anger with warning about Arakan Army

Rakhine nationalists were outraged when the government warned them not to support the Rakhine armed group and accused it of colluding with Rohingya militants.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Facing an uncertain future: Chin refugees in Malaysia

The UN refugee agency has begun phasing out the protection it provides in Malaysia to tens of thousands of Chin, most of whom do not want to return to Myanmar.

BY Eva Hirschi

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Salween Peace Park: federalism from below?

Hundreds gathered recently in a remote mountain village to celebrate the inauguration of a ‘peace park’ backed by the Karen National Union.

BY Ben Dunant

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Myanmar's foreign ministry battens down the hatches

The cancellation of a study tour to Myanmar is a concerning sign of the country's political climate.

BY Thomas Kean

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Reuters journalists lose Yangon court appeal against seven-year sentence

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စုပေါင်းပိုက်ဆံစုကြပြီး ဘဝတွေကို ပြောင်းလဲကြမယ်

တက်လမ်းကနေ အသက်သွင်းပေးလိုက်တဲ့ ငွေစုငွေချေးအဖွဲ့ငယ်တွေဟာ ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းက ဝေးလံခေါင်ဖျားတဲ့ကျေးရွာတွေမှာ အမျိုးသမီးတွေအတွက် လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်နဲ့ အစွမ်းအစတွေဖော်ထုတ်ပြသနိုင်ရာ စင်မြင့်တွေဖြစ်လာကြပါတယ်။

BY Margarite Clarey

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သစ်လုပ်ငန်းစီမံကိန်းထောက်ပံ့မှုကို ဗြိတိန် ယာယီရပ်ဆိုင်း

ဗြိတိသျှဖွံ့ဖြိုးတိုးတက်ရေးအေဂျင်စီဖြစ်သည့် အပြည်ပြည်ဆိုင်ရာဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေးဌာနသည် ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်မှပြဿနာကြောင့် သစ်လုပ်ငန်း ပြုပြင်ပြောင်းလဲရေး စီမံကိန်း ငွေကြေးထောက်ပံ့မှုကို ယာယီရပ်ဆိုင်းခဲ့သည်။

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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Myanmar’s foreign ministry battens down the hatches

The cancellation of a study tour to Myanmar is a concerning sign of the country's political climate.

BY Thomas Kean

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Strike two for South Dagon shoe factory

As lawmakers consider changes to labour laws, workers go on strike for a second time in six months at a Taiwanese-owned shoe factory in South Dagon.

BY Hein Ko Soe

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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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