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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
Frontier was able to reach downtown Buthidaung on Monday evening, and senior reporter Mratt Kyaw Thu gives an update on the current situation.
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.
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Arguments in favour of the grand plan to build one of the region’s largest industrial zones at Dawei are deeply flawed, and vastly outweighed by its potential to damage the environment and disrupt communities.
၁၆ ရာစုက ထင်ရှားခဲ့သော မြန်မာဘုရင်တစ်ပါး ကြွချီရာလမ်းကြောင်းအတိုင်း စက်ဘီးစီးနင်းသည့် ခရီးစဉ်သစ်တစ်ခုသည် ခရီးသွားလုပ်ငန်းအတွက် အလုပ်အကိုင်များ ပိုမိုဖန်တီးရန်နှင့် နိုင်ငံ၏အကြီးမားဆုံး ပိုင်ဆိုင်မှုဖြစ်သည့် နိုင်ငံသားတို့ကို ထုတ်ဖော်ပြသရန် ရည်ရွယ်သော ခရီးစဉ်ဖြစ်သည်။
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