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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.

BY Sam Foot

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Thousands face a nervous wait as junta freezes passport renewals

BY Sam Foot

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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.

BY Frontier

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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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A bike ride escape from Yangon

A new cycling tour that follows that travelled by one of Myanmar’s best-known kings in the 16th century aims to create more jobs in the tourism industry, and showcase the country’s greatest asset: its people.

BY Thomas Kean

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The seven obstacles to peace

The second 21st Century Panglong conference finally began on Wednesday but the peace process faces some major hurdles.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Interfaith activists among released convicts in prisoner amnesty

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BY Hein Ko Soe & Sean Gleeson

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Peace conference opens amid UNFC boycott

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BY Oliver Slow

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Portrait of Wirathu chills Cannes Film Festival

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Can Myanmar’s peace process learn from international experience?

As the latest Panglong conference opens today, civil conflicts in other countries show the common patterns and pitfalls on the path to a successful and sustainable peace process.

BY John Paul Lederach & Stephen Gray and Madhav Joshi

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ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးညီလာခံစတင်၊ သမိုင်းသစ်ကို အတူတကွ စတင်ဖွင့်လှစ်တော့မည်ဟု ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ပြောကြား

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ပြည်ထောင်စုငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးညီလာခံ- ၂၁ ရာစုပင်လုံ ဒုတိယအစည်းအဝေးအား ယနေ့စတင်ဖွင့်လှစ်ခဲ့ရာ အစိုးရ၊ တပ်မတော်နှင့် တိုင်းရင်းသားလက်နက်ကိုင်အဖွဲ့များမှ ကိုယ်စားလှယ် ရာပေါင်းများစွာ တက်ရောက်ခဲ့ကြသည်။

BY Oliver Slow

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Tatmadaw absolves itself of Rakhine abuses in internal ‘investigation’

Myanmar's army on Tuesday cleared itself of allegations that troops may have carried out ethnic cleansing, but said a soldier had been jailed for taking a motorbike.

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At Myanmar’s tourist hotspots, a dirty habit

The thoughtless disposal of litter by domestic travellers is creating a growing rubbish problem from the ancient temples of Bagan to remote waterfalls in Shan State.

BY Frontier

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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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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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‘Suffocated and shackled’: Continuing conflict taking toll on mental health

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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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‘Suffocated and shackled’: Continuing conflict taking toll on mental health

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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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