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‘Until the end of the world’: Remembering Naing Myanmar

The revolutionary songs of Naing Myanmar, who died in February, have supplied a soundtrack for pro-democracy protests since the 1988 uprising, and activists say his music will remain an inspiration until Myanmar achieves freedom from military rule.

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‘Until the end of the world’: Remembering Naing Myanmar

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A house divided: The fate of Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside home

The auctioning of the imprisoned leader’s Yangon house at the behest of her estranged brother is a legal farce, lawyers say, while pro-democracy veterans insist it must be preserved for public memory.

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‘How could I do any less?’: Chin State’s Mother of Resistance

While thousands of civilians flee Myanmar’s war, grandmother Ama and others stay behind, forming the invisible backbone of the anti-junta struggle.

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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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Fool’s gold: Thousands out of work as dispute shutters dozens of mines

A long-running dispute between the government and a mining company over a debt has shuttered dozens of gold mines, crippled small operators and left thousands out of work.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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Govt losing hundreds of millions a year on SOE profit rules, report reveals

Rules introduced in 2012 have seen state-owned enterprises build up cash reserves of K11.45 trillion (US$8.6 billion) in accounts that earn no interest – money that governance experts say would be better spent on infrastructure or social services.

BY Thomas Kean

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Nothing is impossible

Kan Htoo Aung has been disabled from birth but an indefatigable spirit has enabled him to overcome his handicap and devote his life to helping others.

BY Su Myat Mon

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အပစ်ရပ်စာချုပ်လက်မှတ်ထိုးရေး ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု FPNCC ပြောကြား

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံး ပစ်ခတ်ခိုက်တိုက်မှု ရပ်ဆိုင်းရေး သဘောတူညီချက် (NCA) အား လက်မှတ်မထိုးထားရသေးသည့် တိုင်းရင်းသား လက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များပါဝင်သည့် ပြည်ထောင်စု နိုင်ငံရေး ဆွေးနွေးညှိနှိုင်းမှုကော်မတီ (FPNCC) အနေဖြင့် လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးရေးကိစ္စ ဆုံးဖြတ်ရန် စောသေးသည်ဟု အဖွဲ့ဝင်ဖြစ်သည့် ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးအဖွဲ့ (ကေအိုင်အို) ၏ ခေါင်းဆောင်တစ်ဦးဖြစ်သူ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ဂွမ်မော်က ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Ye Mon

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Three lives in Hpakant

The jade industry at Hpakant in Kachin State is a multi-billion-dollar business in which risk flows downhill, from the company bosses to the mid-level traders and, at the bottom, the itinerant miners known as yemase who risk their lives each day in the hope of striking it rich.

BY Daniel Combs

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Empowering through sexual health knowledge

At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

BY Marysol Balane

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Episode 37: An after class culture

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

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Ethnic groups challenge Tatmadaw chief’s Panglong opening speech

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BY Ye Mon

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Peace conference opens amid low expectations and calls for reform

Ethnic leaders and negotiators say that the government and military have blocked discussion of key political and economic issues at the 21st Century Panglong Union Peace Conference that opened today in Nay Pyi Taw.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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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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