The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
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The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.
BY Frontier
Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.
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An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
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In recent years, the international community has accelerated efforts to crack down on the global waste trade – a harmful business that allows the rich to prey on the poor – but a lack of enforcement and a number of loopholes keep the trade afloat.
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Bamboo and sheet-metal shelters lie ruined in the hills of northern Myanmar’s Kachin State after a deadly strike on a camp housing displaced people that a local armed group says was carried out by the military.
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Standing beside his cargo of Thai fruit and furniture, truck driver Ko Cho steels himself for a journey to Myanmar's Yangon that will demand bribes, dodging landslides and navigating a raging civil war.
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Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway around the world.
BY Frontier
Twenty-nine people were killed and dozens wounded in a military strike on a camp for displaced people in Kachin State, a spokesman for the Kachin Independence Army, which controls the area, told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.
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Many of those taken prisoner by Myanmar’s military regime disappear without a trace, leaving their desperate partners and family members to navigate a cruel and complex bureaucracy rife with corruption.
BY Frontier
Forty years ago, Myanmar barmaid Daw Dar San Ye stood in a river running through Yangon, squaring up to a North Korean agent gripping a live grenade.
BY AFP
Utility cuts and a China-driven regional crackdown have dealt a blow to online gambling and scam operations on the Thai-Myanmar border, but a series of workarounds have kept the notorious industry going.
BY Frontier
A United Nations investigation into Myanmar on Wednesday urged the country's military rulers to end forced labour in the army and to halt all violence against trade unionists.
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