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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

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

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

With the Tatmadaw chief reaching retirement age this year, some speculate that a fresh face could achieve a détente with the NLD – but the appointment process itself could hold the key to better civil-military relations.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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)

Plastic and the pandemic

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

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

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Tatmadaw MPs at odds over Rakhine security proposal

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Northern Rakhine ‘under control’, says chief minister

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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၁၆ ရာစုက ထင်ရှားခဲ့သော မြန်မာဘုရင်တစ်ပါး ကြွချီရာလမ်းကြောင်းအတိုင်း စက်ဘီးစီးနင်းသည့် ခရီးစဉ်သစ်တစ်ခုသည် ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းအတွက် အလုပ်အကိုင်များ ပိုမိုဖန်တီးရန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံ၏အကြီးမားဆုံး ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့ကို ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသရန် ရည်ရွယ်သော ခရီးစဉ်ဖြစ်သည်။

BY Thomas Kean

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မောင်တောကို ထိန်းချုပ်ထားနိုင်ဟု ရခိုင်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဆို

စစ်တွေ၊ သြဂုတ် ၂၈

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မြောက်ပိုင်း၊ မောင်တောတွင် ၇၂ နာရီကြာသည်အထိ တိုက်ပွဲများ ဆက်လက် ဖြစ်ပွားနေသော်လည်း ထိန်းချုပ်ထားနိုင်သည့် အခြေအနေဖြစ်သည်ဟု ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးညီပုက ယမန်နေ့က ပြောဆိုလိုက်သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The differences blocking a solution to tensions in Rakhine State

Sharp differences between the government on one side and Rakhine leaders and the Tatmadaw on the other are an obstacle to resolving the situation.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Bangladesh sends back 70 refugees despite continuing violence

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BY AFP

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Security forces 'fire on fleeing Rohingya' as violence scorches Rakhine

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BY AFP

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Security forces ‘fire on fleeing Rohingya’ as violence scorches Rakhine

At least 92 people are now dead since violence began on Friday, according to an official government death toll.

BY AFP

Backpage, Opinion

The ball is round, the game lasts… like, one hour

The perils of covering a football match when you don't know what football is.

BY Jared Downing

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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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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