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Striking oil: Magway Region’s resource wealth draws junta fire

An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.

BY Frontier

Features

Striking oil: Magway Region’s resource wealth draws junta fire

BY Frontier

Features

US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis

United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Myanmar’s resistance faces a moral quandary after the quake

The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.

BY Frontier

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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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Episode 11: Human rights and coal power in Kayin State

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Htet Htet Naing

Affairs, Features

Myanmar’s newsmakers of 2017

Here they are, for better or worse: those who made headlines during 2017, from a beloved canine to political leaders and imprisoned journalists.

BY Frontier

Affairs, Features

Human rights and Myanmar’s digital gender divide

Female activists preaching a message of tolerance online are finding that they too are becoming a target.

BY Maggi Quadrini

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ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ရုံးထုတ်၊ ရမန်နှစ်ပတ် ထပ်ယူ

နိုင်ငံတော် လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် အက်ဥပဒေကို ချိုးဖောက်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲခံထားရကာ ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်နှစ်ပတ်က ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရိုက်တာ သတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ယနေ့ရုံးထုတ်ပြီး ရမန် နောက်ထပ် နှစ်ပတ်ယူခဲ့သည်ဟု ၎င်းတို့၏ ရှေ့နေက ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Reuters

Business, Opinion

Property taxes a small but lucrative target for reform

Taxes collected by municipalities from owners and occupiers are structurally sound and administratively straightforward, but play a much smaller role in Myanmar than they could.

BY Lachlan McDonald

Affairs, Features

Reuters case exposes tensions over the role of journalists

The public response to the arrest of the two Reuters reporters is indicative of a wider debate about the role of journalists in Myanmar.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

News, Interview

Reuters chief: ‘We’re in this for as long as it takes to get them free’

Reuters executive editor Mr Reg Chua tells Frontier’s Thomas Kean about the news agency’s campaign to free its reporters and the “chilling” effect their arrest will have on Myanmar’s media.

BY Thomas Kean

Bizfeed, Business

Seven takeaways from the Myanmar Gems Emporium

The second Myanmar Gems Emporium of the year was held in Nay Pyi Taw from December 12 to 21. Here’s what we learned.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

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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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Striking oil: Magway Region’s resource wealth draws junta fire

Striking oil: Magway Region’s resource wealth draws junta fire

US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis