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‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.

BY Frontier

Features

‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

BY Frontier

Interview, Features

Q&A: Explaining Myanmar’s private security law

Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.

BY Frontier

Features

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

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Ko Kaung Htet, right, on a reporting trip with the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2016. (Sai Zaw Theik)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Backpage, Opinion

A day on the Yangon River

Yangon’s water bus may not yet be a viable alternative to commuting on the bus or train, but it does make for a pleasant day out.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features

For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction

Members of the Muslim community are facing long delays in citizenship applications unless they acquiesce to officials’ suggestions that they be labelled “Bengali”.

BY Thomas Manch

Affairs, Business, Features

Plundered jade mountains leave gaping hole in govt revenue

The government is conducting a long-overdue review of the opaque, graft-riddled jade industry, which is dominated by powerful vested interests whose activities are costing Myanmar billions of dollars a year in lost revenue.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Affairs

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

News

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

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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

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

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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.

News Feed, News

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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‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

Q&A: Explaining Myanmar’s private security law