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Anyar rising: Myanmar’s Dry Zone PDFs up the ante

Resistance groups in western Mandalay Region have shown signs of greater coordination and effectiveness, but there’s still a long way to go to replicate the successes of their comrades in the north.

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Anyar rising: Myanmar’s Dry Zone PDFs up the ante

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‘An incredible generosity of spirit’: Remembering Paul Minoletti

An economist who prized people over numbers, Paul left behind a legacy in Myanmar that is celebrated by his colleagues, students and friends.

BY Frontier

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Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.

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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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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။

BY Frontier

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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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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.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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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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With ARSA attacks, northern Rakhine plunges into new, darker chapter

The most recent attacks on security forces in the region came just hours after the commission led by Kofi Annan submitted its final report to the government.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Oliver Slow

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Home Affairs Minister briefs diplomats on ARSA attacks

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BY Htun Khaing

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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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