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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Features

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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

Opinion

Mobile money: The next wave of financial inclusion

The rapid uptake of smartphones and data usage in Myanmar as well as limited access to formal banking offers a unique opportunity for mobile money operators.

BY Brad Jones

Affairs, Features

Social media shines a light on Myanmar’s taboo topics

Myanmar’s social media boom is enabling people to speak up – whether it’s to complain to the government, help keep aggressive bus drivers off Yangon’s roads or make a dangerous expressway safer.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

The myth of ‘targeted’ sanctions

There may be important reasons why sanctions need to be maintained. If so, the NLD should start making this case.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

The myth of 'targeted' sanctions

There may be important reasons why sanctions need to be maintained. If so, the NLD should start making this case.

BY Frontier

Affairs, Features

The new political playing field

Political allegiances in the real world are reflected in debates and arguments on Facebook, but the social media platform remains plagued by hate speech and fake accounts.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Photo Essays, Features

Shock FX

Gruesome injuries, dangling eyeballs and dripping blood are among the creative repertoire of a small but growing number of special effects make-up artists working in the movie industry.

BY Thi Ri Han

Affairs, Features

Panglong 21 and the long search for peace

The 21^st Century Panglong conference is a symbolic step toward peace and national reconciliation, but huge challenges remain.

BY Oliver Slow

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၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံံ၌ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့သည်များ အလဟဿ မဖြစ်စေရန် စီစဉ်မည်

အပြန်အလှန်ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းနဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းတွေ ပြုလုပ်ဖို့မရှိတဲ့ ၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံကြီးက ဆွေးနွေးချက်များကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရုံသာမကဘဲ မကြာခင်မှာ နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ ပြုလုပ်သွားဖို့စီစဉ်နေတဲ့ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွေမှာ အသုံးပြုသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

BY Frontier

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

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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.

News Feed, News

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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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders