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‘We have a common enemy’: Paletwa dispute on hold but unresolved

The Arakan Army’s presence in southern Chin State has long been a source of ethnic tensions which have eased following the emergence of a common enemy after the coup, but the underlying disagreement over who should control Paletwa remains unresolved.

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‘We have a common enemy’: Paletwa dispute on hold but unresolved

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Myanmar’s divided art world risks leaving the public behind

With commercialism and escapism fuelling the domestic art scene, and exhibitions abroad trying to recapture the spirit of post-coup protests, many in Myanmar are deprived of work that reflects their new reality.

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‘Everything was destroyed’: Families find new homes after military attacks

A charity group has responded to the military’s brutal arson campaign in Sagaing Region by building palm huts for those who lost their houses, but it’s struggling to keep up with the rate of devastation.

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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)

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Episode 25: Water shortage in Mon State

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Htet Htet Naing

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ရိုက်တာသတင်းသမားနှစ်ဦးအား လွှတ်ပေးရန် လျှောက်ထားမှုကို တရားရုံးပယ်ချ

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ပြီးခဲ့တဲ့ ဒီဇင်ဘာလကတည်းက ဖမ်းဆီးခံထားရပြီး နိုင်ငံတော်လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် အက်ဥပဒေအား ချိုးဖောက်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲခံထားရသည့် ရိုက်တာသတင်းသမားနှစ်ဦးအား လွှတ်ပေးရန် ၎င်းတို့၏ ရှေ့နေများက ယနေ့ တင်ပြမှုကို တရားသူကြီးက ပယ်ချလိုက်သည်။

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Tackling sexual violence in Kayah

Beneficiaries of a $48 million USAID grant to strengthen local communities in southeastern Myanmar include a women’s group that campaigns against gender-based violence.

BY Hein Ko Soe

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ICC prosecutor seeks to open Rakhine probe

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Yangon’s port a case study in red tape gone wild

The latest World Bank ease of doing business report ranked Myanmar near the bottom of 190 global economies and this story will help you to understand why.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Conditions in Myanmar 'not conducive' to Rohingya return: UN

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Conditions in Myanmar ‘not conducive’ to Rohingya return: UN

Conditions in Myanmar's crisis-hit northern Rakhine state are "not conducive" to bringing back Rohingya who fled to Bangladesh, a senior UN official said, despite Myanmar's insistence that it is ready for returnees.

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In search of rusty locos

A journey through railway history on the Thai border.

BY Jared Downing

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English: more than a foreign language

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BY Ewan Cameron

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Myanmar’s divided art world risks leaving the public behind

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How internal conflict in Shan State has kept it aloof from the Spring Revolution

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The hidden plight of Myanmar’s double minorities

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The UN can no longer play dumb to its manipulation by the Myanmar military

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Northern Shan IDPs are forced to return ‘home’ with no assistance

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No respite from heat for Yangon’s factory workers

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The fading hopes of Myanmar’s university students

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Pregnant and displaced: the plight of a migrant worker in Thailand

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Northern Shan IDPs are forced to return ‘home’ with no assistance

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No respite from heat for Yangon’s factory workers

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The fading hopes of Myanmar’s university students

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Pregnant and displaced: the plight of a migrant worker in Thailand

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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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