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Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar

The suicide rate began rising during the COVID-19 pandemic and has continued to increase since the coup as financial hardship, political repression and the collapse of the healthcare system take a toll on mental health.

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Suicides surge in post-coup Myanmar

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‘We don’t want to live in cities’: rural migrants face harassment

Residents of conflict-wracked Sagaing and Magway regions who have left for the relative safety of big cities face challenges that include discrimination, harassment and barriers to their children’s education.

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Chinese energy companies lobby junta to import Russian gas

A leaked junta memo shows three Chinese firms appealing to Nay Pyi Taw to arrange liquified natural gas imports from Russia amid economic turmoil in Myanmar.

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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)

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Myanmar art exposed

After a controversy over terminology and a year’s preparation, the ambitious Yangon Art Expo has helped to create greater international interest in contemporary Myanmar art.

BY Jared Downing

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Pope arrives in Myanmar on high-stakes visit

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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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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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The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

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

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

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Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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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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