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‘It was all lies’: Myanmar’s military widows denied pensions and payouts

There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

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‘It was all lies’: Myanmar’s military widows denied pensions and payouts

There is growing evidence that the cash-strapped junta is refusing to pay the pensions and compensation that soldiers’ families are entitled to when their husbands or sons die on duty.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Bangladesh, the Rohingya and the new reality in Rakhine

Bangladesh’s interim government has lobbied successfully for an international conference on the Rohingya. But for repatriation to have any chance of moving forward, organisers need to consider the rise of the Arakan Army.

BY Frontier

News, Features

The fighting peacock: Myanmar’s NLD on the front lines

Members of the former ruling party have followed different paths since the 2021 coup, with some lying low and others taking up arms, while the continued imprisonment and recent deaths of party leaders raise questions about its future.

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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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U Thaung Tun rejects 'ethnic cleansing' charge in Geneva

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U Thaung Tun rejects ‘ethnic cleansing’ charge in Geneva

A senior Myanmar official on Thursday rejected a UN accusation that his government has been carrying 'ethnic cleansing' against the Rohingya.

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'I just tried to prove to myself that I could do it': Reflections on International Women's Day

A nun, an artist, a lawyer and a leading member of the business community talk to Frontier about their lives and work to mark International Women’s Day.

BY Katrin Schregenberger

Affairs, Culture

Protecting Myanmar's elephants from extinction

A new plan developed by the Ministry of Natural Resources and Environmental Conservation with input from international conservation groups aims to ensure that Myanmar’s wild elephants are not lost to history.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Opinion

Women’s economic empowerment a key goal for Myanmar

There is great potential for a more systematic inclusion of women within Myanmar’s national development plans.

BY Thomas Kring

Affairs, Features

I just tried to prove to myself that I could do it’: Reflections on International Women’s Day

A nun, an artist, a lawyer and a leading member of the business community talk to Frontier about their lives and work to mark International Women’s Day.

BY Katrin Schregenberger

Affairs, Features, Culture

Protecting Myanmar’s elephants from extinction

A new plan developed with input from international conservation groups aims to ensure that Myanmar’s wild elephants are not lost to history.

BY Hein Ko Soe

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USDP cries foul over resettled Kaman in Yangon

The resettlement in Yangon of Kaman from Rakhine State has the USDP worrying about an influx of ‘legal and illegal immigrants’ in the commercial capital.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Business, Opinion

The key changes for investors in the new MIC regime

Laws passed in 2016 and 2017 have brought major reforms to the Myanmar Investment Commission and have been received with cautious optimism by investors.

BY Ross Taylor

Opinion

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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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