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Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off

Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.

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Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off

Myanmar's military regime is conducting a controversial population count amid intensifying conflict, putting enumerators and respondents at risk.

BY Frontier

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Conflict, uncertainty hang over Mogok’s gemstone industry

Following a chaotic boom period, conflict has left Myanmar’s ruby mines in limbo, due to displacement, road closures and the disappearance of Chinese buyers.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Against the odds: The diary of a frontline medic, part two

A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah State reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team of medics to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.

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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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Does Myanmar need a strong opposition party?

Former student leaders have discussed forming a party to serve as an effective opposition against the NLD, but the nation has more important concerns.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Kirin to buy Mandalay Brewery to dominate Myanmar market, says report

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Hpakant jade mine landslide kills 9

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ပင်လုံ မိသားစုဝင်များ ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အပေါ် မျှော်လင့်ချက်ကြီးမား

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်ရဲ့ ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေးနဲ့ တိုင်းပြည်ဖွံ့ဖြိုးရေး လုပ်ငန်းစဉ်များအပေါ် မျှော်လင့်ချက်ကြီးစွာ ထားရှိတယ်လို့ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်အောင်ဆန်းနဲ့အတူ ပင်လုံစာချုပ်ကို လက်မှတ်ရေးထိုးခဲ့ကြတဲ့ တိုင်းရင်းသားခေါင်းဆောင်များရဲ့ မိသားစု ဝင်အချို့က ပြောကြားကြပါတယ်။

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What to expect in tech this year

Now that Myanmar is well and truly connected, 2017 is set to be all about the content.

BY Rita Nguyen

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Hundreds more facing eviction at Letpadaung: Amnesty

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BY Sean Gleeson

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Anti-Rohingya protest greets Malaysian aid ship in Yangon

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BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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တနင်္သာရီ ကမ်းမြောင်တစ်လျှောက် သွားရောက်ခြင်း

တနင်္သာရီ တိုင်းဒေသကြီးသို့ အလည်အပတ် သွားကြသူ နိုင်ငံခြားသား ခရီးသွား အနည်းအကျဉ်းသာ ရှိသည့်တိုင် သွားရောက်ကြသူများမှာ ရင်သပ်ရှုမောဖွယ်ရာ ကမ်းခြေများ၊ လူသူအရောက်အပေါက်နည်းသော ကျွန်းများနှင့် ကာလရှည်ကြာ မေ့လျော့ထားခဲ့သော ကိုလိုနီတပ်

BY Marcus Allender

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Bangladesh rebukes Myanmar for ‘unprovoked aggression’ after fisherman shot dead

Bangladesh on Wednesday rebuked Myanmar for opening fire on a boat in the Naf River that marks their border and killing one fisherman.

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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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