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Pangs of guilt: Exiles in India torn between safety and resistance

Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.

BY Emily Fishbein

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Pangs of guilt: Exiles in India torn between safety and resistance

BY Emily Fishbein

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Parents, teachers and students boycott ‘slave education system’

With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.

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As striking staff return to work, Myanmar’s banks face a cash crunch

Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.

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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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UK's Johnson urges 'independent' probe of Rohingya crisis after Myanmar visit

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Reducing harm for families of people who use drugs

People who inject drugs are at higher risk of HIV infection, but stigma and discrimination can make them and their partners hesitant to seek protective care.

BY Nina Margareta Høie & Taniele Gofers

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Myanmar minister orders refugees to leave no man’s land between Rakhine and Bangladesh

Deputy Minister for Home Affairs Major-General Aung Soe appeared to tell Rohingya refugees they will face 'consequences' if they stay where they are.

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UK’s Johnson urges ‘independent’ probe of Rohingya crisis after Myanmar visit

Britain's foreign minister Boris Johnson stopped off in Myanmar on Sunday to press Daw Aung San Suu Kyi on the need for an independent probe into violence in Rakhine State.

BY AFP

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Riding a bicycle in Yangon is like betting on your life’

Despite formidable challenges, including legal ambiguity and drivers with an attitude problem, a grassroots group is striving to make Yangon more bicycle friendly.

BY Katrin Schregenberger

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'Riding a bicycle in Yangon is like betting on your life'

Despite formidable challenges, including legal ambiguity and drivers with an attitude problem, a grassroots group is striving to make Yangon more bicycle friendly.

BY Katrin Schregenberger

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Myanmar minister orders refugees to leave no man's land between Rakhine and Bangladesh

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Inn Din village administrator facing investigation after Reuters report on massacre

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Justice in the dock as hearings continue against Reuters journalists

Testimony at a court hearing has fuelled speculation the reporters are victims of entrapment.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

‘Social punishment’ campaign turns the tables on military elite

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Podcast: Wrongful arrest

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Video: A midwife’s tale

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Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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Podcast: Wrongful arrest

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Video: A midwife’s tale

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Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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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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