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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

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Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

The junta says the population count will help prepare for an election but it’s more likely meant to flush out dissidents, in an exercise that is destined to flop.

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Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady

As fighting spreads to southern Rakhine, thousands have fled for neighbouring Ayeyarwady, where they’ve had a frosty reception as the junta tightens security in one of its few remaining stable strongholds.

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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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Returning Rakhine villagers call for more security

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BY Hein Ko Soe

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450,000 illegal Myanmar workers in Thailand meet registration deadline

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တောင့်တင်းလုံလောက်သည့် လုံခြုံရေးစီမံပေးရန် မောင်တောရှိ ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများ တောင်းဆို

တောင့်တင်းလုံလောက်သည့် လုံခြုံရေးရှိမှသာ မိမိတို့ နေရပ်တွင် အစဉ်အမြဲပြန်လည်နေထိုင်ရန် ဖြစ်နိုင်မည်ဟု လွန်ခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်အတွင်း မေယုတောင်တန်းအနီးတဝိုက် ရခိုင်ရွာများမှ ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ်၊ စေတီပြင်ရွာသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်လာခဲ့ကြသူ ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများက ပြောကြားကြသည်။

BY Hein Ko Soe

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China’s military reform and Myanmar’s security dynamic

Far-reaching reform of the People’s Liberation Army in China has significant implications for defence policy and the quest for peace in Myanmar.

BY Amara Thiha

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The master harp maker and an imperilled craft

A master craftsman in the art of making Burmese harps fears for the future of one of the country’s best-known traditional instruments.

BY Su Myat Mon

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Muted ceremonies held for 1988 unrest anniversary

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BY Hein Ko Soe

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‘I don’t want to point my finger’ over country’s conflicts: Daw Aung San Suu Kyi

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Colonial conquest's lost treasures return to Myanmar

In returning Myanmar relics to their native land almost two centuries after their capture, a New Zealand lawyer concludes a generations-old story of conquest, spoil and reconciliation.

BY Jared Downing

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Colonial conquest’s lost treasures return to Myanmar

In returning Myanmar relics almost two centuries after their capture, a New Zealand lawyer concludes a generations-old story of conquest, spoil and reconciliation.

BY Jared Downing

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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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