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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

BY Frontier

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

BY Frontier

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ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

BY Frontier

Features

The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

BY Frontier

Highlights

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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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Affairs, Features

For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction

Members of the Muslim community are facing long delays in citizenship applications unless they acquiesce to officials’ suggestions that they be labelled “Bengali”.

BY Thomas Manch

Affairs, Business, Features

Plundered jade mountains leave gaping hole in govt revenue

The government is conducting a long-overdue review of the opaque, graft-riddled jade industry, which is dominated by powerful vested interests whose activities are costing Myanmar billions of dollars a year in lost revenue.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Affairs

Myanmar's newsmakers of 2017

Here they are, for better or worse: those who made headlines during 2017, from a beloved canine to political leaders and imprisoned journalists.

BY Frontier

News

Episode 11: Human rights and coal power in Kayin State

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Htet Htet Naing

Affairs, Features

Myanmar’s newsmakers of 2017

Here they are, for better or worse: those who made headlines during 2017, from a beloved canine to political leaders and imprisoned journalists.

BY Frontier

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ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ရုံးထုတ်၊ ရမန်နှစ်ပတ် ထပ်ယူ

နိုင်ငံတော် လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် အက်ဥပဒေကို ချိုးဖောက်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲခံထားရကာ ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်နှစ်ပတ်က ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရိုက်တာ သတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ယနေ့ရုံးထုတ်ပြီး ရမန် နောက်ထပ် နှစ်ပတ်ယူခဲ့သည်ဟု ၎င်းတို့၏ ရှေ့နေက ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Reuters

Affairs, Features

Human rights and Myanmar’s digital gender divide

Female activists preaching a message of tolerance online are finding that they too are becoming a target.

BY Maggi Quadrini

Business, Opinion

Property taxes a small but lucrative target for reform

Taxes collected by municipalities from owners and occupiers are structurally sound and administratively straightforward, but play a much smaller role in Myanmar than they could.

BY Lachlan McDonald

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

Opinion

‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

Fear and terror in Magway

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

Fear and terror in Magway

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?