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A ‘new chapter’? The future of rare earth mining under KIO rule

Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.

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A ‘new chapter’? The future of rare earth mining under KIO rule

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India must do more for Myanmar refugees in Mizoram

Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers.

BY Frontier

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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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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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Stuck in a rut on the road to democracy

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Yangon University’s campus cash cows

Yangon University has some nice little earners, including a lucrative tender for a monopoly of all graduation photos, but evidence of the income is hard to find.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Facebook bans Min Aung Hlaing, army top brass after UN genocide allegations

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Army chiefs must be prosecuted for 'genocide', says UN Fact-Finding Mission

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Verdict in Reuters case postponed due to judge’s ‘poor health’

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BY Ben Dunant & Ye Mon

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တရားသူကြီး နေမကောင်းဟုဆိုကာ ရိုက်တာအမှု အမိန့်ချရန် ရက်ရွှေ့ဆိုင်း

လျှို့ဝှက်အဆင့် စာရွက်စာတမ်းတွေကို လက်ဝယ်တွေ့ရှိတယ်လို့ စွပ်စွဲ ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ကိုကျော်စိုးဦးတို့ကို မြောက်ပိုင်းခရိုင်တရားရုံးက ယနေ့၊ သြဂုတ်၂၇ ရက်နေ့မှာ အမိန့်ချဖို့ သတ်မှတ်ထားပေမယ့် တရားသူကြီးဖြစ်သူ ဦးရဲလွင်နေမကောင်းတာကြောင့် စက်တင်ဘာ ၃ ရက်ကို ရွှေ့ဆိုင်းလိုက်ပါတယ်။

BY Ye Mon

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Why food safety matters

This advertorial is produced and sponsored by METRO Wholesale Myanmar

BY METRO Wholesale Myanmar

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Army chiefs must be prosecuted for ‘genocide’, says UN Fact-Finding Mission

The United Nations Fact-Finding Mission on Myanmar called on August 27 for an international probe and the prosecution of Myanmar's military chief and five other top commanders for genocide against the country's Rohingya minority.

BY AFP

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Report: Phyo Myat Aung wins Myanmar Idol season 3

Myanmar has a new pop sensation, ladies and gentleman, and his name is Phyo Myat Aung!

BY Jared Downing

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India must do more for Myanmar refugees in Mizoram

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

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

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Goodbye, Ko Htet Wai

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‘The cruel waves’: Myanmar migrants remember the tsunami

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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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India must do more for Myanmar refugees in Mizoram

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

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

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Goodbye, Ko Htet Wai

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‘The cruel waves’: Myanmar migrants remember the tsunami

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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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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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