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Thousands face a nervous wait as junta freezes passport renewals

The regime's sudden decision has hobbled Myanmar citizens seeking better lives overseas and risks depriving migrant workers of legal protections, with rights groups suspecting a ploy to target dissidents.

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Thousands face a nervous wait as junta freezes passport renewals

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Border battles: Fighting for control in Rakhine

Seizing Myanmar’s borders with Bangladesh and India has become central to the Arakan Army’s dream of autonomy and has driven its strategy during times of war and peace.

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Debt and desperation driving overseas kidney sales

An increasing number of Myanmar people are selling kidneys as a quick-fix solution to poverty and debt, with many donors going to India for transplants and telling lies to have them approved.

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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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UN Security Council meets on latest Rakhine violence

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Protecting our children

Innovative water filtration techniques are being pioneered in Rakhine State in response to deadly cases of diarrhoea among children.

BY Jennifer Macintyre

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Nearly 20,000 cross into Bangladesh since fresh Rakhine violence, says IOM

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'Systematic' Myanmar abuses fuelling ARSA insurgency, says UN

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စစ်ဖက်အုပ်ချုပ်ခွင့်ရဖို့ တပ်မတော် ဆန္ဒရှိနေတဲ့ ရခိုင်အရေး ဆုံမှတ်ဝေးဆဲလား

အရေးပေါ်အခြေအနေကြေညာနိုင်ဖို့ လက်ရှိအစိုးရလက်ထက်မှာ တစ်ကြိမ်မှ ပြုလုပ်ခြင်းမရှိသေးတဲ့ အမျိုးသားကာကွယ်ရေးနဲ့ လုံခြုံရေးကောင်စီအစည်းအဝေးကို ခေါ်ယူခွင့်ရှိတဲ့ နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မတဖက်က ဆောင်ရွက်ပေးစေချင်တယ်လို့လည်း တပ်မတော်ဖက်အရာရှိကြီးတွေဖက်က ထုတ်ပြောကြပါတယ်။

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Systematic’ Myanmar abuses fuelling ARSA insurgency, says UN

The UN rights chief on Tuesday said decades of abuses were largely to blame for spiralling violence in Rakhine State.

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It’s time to scrap the Dawei Special Economic Zone

Arguments in favour of the grand plan to build one of the region’s largest industrial zones at Dawei are deeply flawed, and vastly outweighed by its potential to damage the environment and disrupt communities.

BY Danny Marks & Tammy Chou

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Making sense of a deepening crisis in Rakhine

The more attacks that the ARSA launches, the further we will be pushed away from a solution to the misery and desperation that blights the region.

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Northern Rakhine: What we know on the ground

Frontier was able to reach downtown Buthidaung on Monday evening, and senior reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu gives an update on the current situation.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Myanmar’s mental health crisis needs an inclusive fix

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How the BURMA Act passed congress

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From the coup to something called an ‘election’

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Why military defections still matter to Myanmar’s revolution

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Forced out by fire

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Families fear for political prisoners being denied healthcare

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Risking their lives to teach children in conflict zones

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Seven months after airstrikes, forgotten families still line the banks of the Thaung Yin River

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Forced out by fire

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Families fear for political prisoners being denied healthcare

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Risking their lives to teach children in conflict zones

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Seven months after airstrikes, forgotten families still line the banks of the Thaung Yin River

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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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