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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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Home Affairs Minister briefs diplomats on ARSA attacks

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BY Htun Khaing

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At least 6,000 stranded on Bangladesh border: official

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Satellite imagery shows widespread fires in northern Rakhine

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BY Frontier & Oliver Slow

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Bangladesh offers Myanmar army aid against ARSA

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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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Tatmadaw MPs at odds over Rakhine security proposal

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Northern Rakhine ‘under control’, says chief minister

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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၁၆ ရာစုက ထင်ရှားခဲ့သော မြန်မာဘုရင်တစ်ပါး ကြွချီရာလမ်းကြောင်းအတိုင်း စက်ဘီးစီးနင်းသည့် ခရီးစဉ်သစ်တစ်ခုသည် ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းအတွက် အလုပ်အကိုင်များ ပိုမိုဖန်တီးရန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံ၏အကြီးမားဆုံး ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့ကို ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသရန် ရည်ရွယ်သော ခရီးစဉ်ဖြစ်သည်။

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မောင်တောကို ထိန်းချုပ်ထားနိုင်ဟု ရခိုင်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ်ဆို

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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် မြောက်ပိုင်း၊ မောင်တောတွင် ၇၂ နာရီကြာသည်အထိ တိုက်ပွဲများ ဆက်လက် ဖြစ်ပွားနေသော်လည်း ထိန်းချုပ်ထားနိုင်သည့် အခြေအနေဖြစ်သည်ဟု ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်ဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးညီပုက ယမန်နေ့က ပြောဆိုလိုက်သည်။

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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