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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

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Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

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Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

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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

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Tatmadaw chief thanks China for 'standing on Myanmar’s side'

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Tatmadaw chief thanks China for ‘standing on Myanmar’s side’

Senior General Min Aung Hlaing hailed China’s support for Myanmar over the Rakhine State crisis when he met President Xi Jinping in Beijing last week.

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Does the National League for Democracy really want a federal system?

A proposed law giving the Union parliament more control over state and regional assemblies has some wondering if the government’s support for federalism is genuine.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Myanmar, EU chamber sign trade and investment deal

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BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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Two new ministries established to 'ease workload' for govt

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Govt officials push coal plant at investment fair

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BY Su Myat Mon

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Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to start refugee return in two months

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ချန်ပီယံသစ် ပေါ်ထွက်ခဲ့သလို လိဂ်ကို လက်ပြနှုတ်ဆက်ခဲ့တဲ့ အသင်းတွေ စံချိန်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘောလုံးရာသီ

ချန်ပီယံသစ် ပေါ်ထွက်လာပေမယ့် ကမောက်ကမဖြစ်စဉ်တွေနဲ့ပြည့်နှက်နေခဲ့တဲ့၂၀၁၇ မြန်မာနေရှင်နယ်လိဂ်ဘောလုံးရာသီဟာ မကြာမီက ပြီးဆုံးသွားခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်သလို လိဂ်ကို လက်ပြနှုတ်ဆက်သွားခဲ့တဲ့ အသင်းတွေ စံချိန်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရာသီလည်း ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

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Two new ministries established to ‘ease workload’ for govt

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has voted in favour of forming two new ministries aimed at easing the workload of the current administration.

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Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

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Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

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Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

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Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

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Blood transfusions drying up

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Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

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Blood transfusions drying up

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Volume 6, Issue 18

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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