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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

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ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

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Features

The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

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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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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At Ko Nay Win’s funeral, a selfless hero and NLD stalwart remembered

Friends of the taxi driver shot dead while chasing the gunman who killed U Ko Ni have paid tribute to a man of courage known for his sense of justice.

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Businesses deny consultation on MIC foreign investment restrictions

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BY Hein Ko Soe

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Commission rejects UN criticism of Rohingya abuse investigation

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CNF considers Panglong boycott over political dialogue delay

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BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

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Monk caught in Rakhine with more than 4 million methamphetamine pills

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Opinion

Preventing needless deaths through village health funds

In rural Chin State, a health committee is helping provide much needed access to finance for villagers in the event of a medical emergency.

BY Taniele Gofers & Khaleb Brooks

Affairs, Features, Culture

An audience with the ‘king’ of the Konyak Naga

The realm of the king of the Konyak Naga covers 40 villages in Myanmar and India and the border runs through the middle of the home, where he grants interviews beside a traditional hearth.

BY Raymond Pagnucco

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U Win Htein: ‘Godfather’ of the NLD

A sharp tongue has made NLD spokesperson U Win Htein one of the most controversial members of the ruling party but criticism of the former military officer is like water off a duck’s back.

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U Win Htein: 'Godfather' of the NLD

Blunt views and a sharp tongue have helped to make NLD spokesperson U Win Htein one of the most controversial members of the ruling party but criticism of the former military officer, businessman and political prisoner is like water off a duck’s back.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

Opinion

‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

Latest Issue

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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