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Debt nightmare crushes dreams of a better life for poor farmers

Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

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Debt nightmare crushes dreams of a better life for poor farmers

Migrant worker remittances have transformed the remote Magway Region village of Mauktin, but unscrupulous job brokers have left many residents under crushing debt.

BY Pyae Sone Aung

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

The Tatmadaw has resumed its old ways, killing civilians and destroying villages, despite the early promise of peace initiatives backed by Norway and other Western countries.

BY Charles Petrie & Ashley South

News

Air pollution: The other invisible menace

While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.

BY Kirt A. Page

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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The Dawei Chaung dump in Yangon's North Dagon Township is seen on December 15, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Island hopping at Yangon Region's Ta Blu Hla Dam will ease your lockdown blues – but travel at your own risk. (Dominic Horner)

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

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If Myanmar wants peace, genuine engagement is vital

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BY Frontier & Frontier

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Govt ignored martial law proposal a week before attacks, says military

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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U Wirathu defies preaching ban to call for state of emergency

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BY Htun Khaing

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UN Security Council meets on latest Rakhine violence

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BY AFP

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Protecting our children

Innovative water filtration techniques are being pioneered in Rakhine State in response to deadly cases of diarrhoea among children.

BY Jennifer Macintyre

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စစ်ဖက်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဖို့ တပ်မတော် ဆန္ဒရှိနေတဲ့ ရခိုင်အရေး ဆုံမှတ်ဝေးဆဲလား

အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေကြေညာနိုင်ဖို့ လက်ရှိအစိုးရလက်ထက်မှာ တစ်ကြိမ်မှ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်းမရှိသေးတဲ့ အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးနဲ့ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအစည်းအဝေးကို ခေါ်ယူခွင့်ရှိတဲ့ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတဖက်က ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးစေချင်တယ်လို့လည်း တပ်မတော်ဖက်အရာရှိကြီးတွေဖက်က ထုတ်ပြောကြပါတယ်။

BY Frontier

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Systematic’ Myanmar abuses fuelling ARSA insurgency, says UN

The UN rights chief on Tuesday said decades of abuses were largely to blame for spiralling violence in Rakhine State.

BY AFP

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Nearly 20,000 cross into Bangladesh since fresh Rakhine violence, says IOM

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BY AFP

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'Systematic' Myanmar abuses fuelling ARSA insurgency, says UN

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BY AFP

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

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Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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