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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Features

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Affairs, Features

Yangon ministers defend ‘achievements’ in testy media conference

Regional ministers deliver an unconvincing performance at a press conference to discuss the Yangon government’s achievements in its first year — two months after the government’s first anniversary.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Features, Culture

The life, work and fish of Arker Kyaw

Artist Arker Kyaw found notoriety in 2012 with a mural of Barack Obama and more recently has been expressing life’s struggles on canvas with a pet fish as his muse.

BY Jared Downing

Affairs

At rest in Yangon's cemeteries

Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.

BY Jared Downing

News Feed, News

Arrests as Yangon authorities tear down Hlegu slum

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BY AFP

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59 bodies recovered from Andaman Sea as search continues for remaining victims

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BY AFP

Opinion

Colonialism, nationalism and the Burmese dream

The Burmese dream finds expression in the late Thu Maung’s classic song “Nagani” but its message is about more than pride and patriotism and is critical for the nation’s future.

BY Khin Chan Myae Maung

Affairs, Features

At rest in Yangon’s cemeteries

Scattered throughout Yangon are sites honouring the memory of men and women, famous and unknown, Burmese and foreigners, who rest in peace.

BY Jared Downing

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The ‘patriots’ exploiting religion who want a return to junta rule

Evidence is emerging that a shadowy group of “patriots” nostalgic for junta rule is exploiting religion in the hope of creating a national emergency that would justify a Tatmadaw takeover.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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တိုးတက်မှု တစုံတရာ မချပြနိုင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းအစိုးရ ရှင်းလင်းပွဲ

ရန်ကုန်မှာ အဓိက ခံစားနေရတဲ့ ပြဿနာတွေ ဖြစ်တဲ့ ရေကြီးရေလျှံတာ၊ လျှပ်စစ်မီး မလုံလောက်တာ၊ ကားကြပ်တာ၊ ဘာသာရေး၊ လူမျိုးရေးလှုံ့ဆော်မှုတွေ၊ အမုန်းစကား ပြောနေမှုတွေနဲ့ နေ့စဉ် လမ်းပန်းဆက်သွယ်ရေး ခက်ခဲမှုတွေ၊ အလုပ်သမားပြဿနာတွေ စသည်ဖြင့် များလှတဲ့အရေးတွေကို တနှစ်ကျော်လာပြီဖြစ်တဲ့ ရန်ကုန်အစိုးရအနေနဲ့ ဘာတွေများ လုပ်ပြီးနေပြီလဲ၊ ဘာတွေ ဆောင်ရွက်ဖို့ ရှိသလဲဆိုတာ စိတ်ဝင်စားစရာကောင်းလှပါတယ်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

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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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