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Babel Rap: How a transnational hip hop collective is rapping against Myanmar’s dictatorship

Producer-emcee Kan Kyi draws on his roots to unite a diverse crew of emcees to say in Chiang Mai what often can’t be said in Myanmar.

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Babel Rap: How a transnational hip hop collective is rapping against Myanmar’s dictatorship

Producer-emcee Kan Kyi draws on his roots to unite a diverse crew of emcees to say in Chiang Mai what often can’t be said in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

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Frontier CEO Sonny Swe announces plan to step down

Frontier co-founder Sonny Swe says he intends to step down as the company’s chief executive officer, after almost a decade in the role.

BY Frontier

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Troubled waters: Bangladeshi fishermen rocked by Rakhine war

Conflict and chaos in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have escalated the risks faced by Bangladeshis who are trying to eke out a living along the maritime border.

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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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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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Thousands protest jailing of activists in Myitkyina

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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

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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.

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‘Pure protectionism’: Tour operators lament Dawei motorbike ban

A recent tourism ministry order to companies in Dawei not to rent motorbikes to foreign visitors threatens to derail the town’s status as an emerging tourism destination.

BY Oliver Slow

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Twelve months too long

December 12 will mark one year to the day since Reuters journalists Ko Wa Lone and Ko Kyaw Soe Oo were arrested by police on the outskirts of Yangon. They have been behind bars ever since.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

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For a peaceful Rakhine, the AA must right past and present wrongs

Opinion

What the Miss Grand International incident reveals about Myanmar’s political psychology

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Goodbye, Ko Htet Wai

Opinion

Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

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Escaping domestic violence while confined to a refugee camp

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IDPs suffering malnutrition as aid sources decline

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Conscription threat leaves young people trapped, undocumented or in limbo

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Displaced people from Loikaw not convinced it’s safe to return yet

Opinion

Opinion

For a peaceful Rakhine, the AA must right past and present wrongs

Opinion

What the Miss Grand International incident reveals about Myanmar’s political psychology

Opinion

Goodbye, Ko Htet Wai

Opinion

Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

Doh Athan

Doh Athan

Escaping domestic violence while confined to a refugee camp

Doh Athan

IDPs suffering malnutrition as aid sources decline

Doh Athan

Conscription threat leaves young people trapped, undocumented or in limbo

Doh Athan

Displaced people from Loikaw not convinced it’s safe to return yet

Latest Issue

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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