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‘Ready to fight’: Mon on the march

The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.

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‘Ready to fight’: Mon on the march

The Mon resistance has entered the post-coup conflict but still has a long way to go to replicate the success of other groups, starting with forging unity in a fractured landscape.

BY Frontier

Features

‘Until the end of the world’: Remembering Naing Myanmar

The revolutionary songs of Naing Myanmar, who died in February, have supplied a soundtrack for pro-democracy protests since the 1988 uprising, and activists say his music will remain an inspiration until Myanmar achieves freedom from military rule.

BY Frontier

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A house divided: The fate of Aung San Suu Kyi’s lakeside home

The auctioning of the imprisoned leader’s Yangon house at the behest of her estranged brother is a legal farce, lawyers say, while pro-democracy veterans insist it must be preserved for public memory.

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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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New mining rules ‘tinkering at the edges’, says MCRB

The Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business has urged a total overhaul of the legal framework for mining just weeks after the government enacted rules to bring into force the amended Myanmar Mines Law.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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Central Bank pushes for moveable asset finance law to improve credit access

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BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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U Parmaukkha walks free from prison after US embassy protest conviction

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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

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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

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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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