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‘Psychological violence’: Nationalist Dhamma schools make a comeback under junta

Buddhist education centres for children and young adults are multiplying across Myanmar, but while they claim to be politically neutral, critics say they teach toxic nationalism and military propaganda.

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‘Psychological violence’: Nationalist Dhamma schools make a comeback under junta

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Sexual violence in the fog of war

As regions like Sagaing plunge deeper into the chaos of Myanmar’s post-coup conflict, cases of sexual violence by both sides are on the rise and victims have few avenues to seek redress.

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Continued instability brings mixed fortunes for rice growers

Widespread conflict has had a devastating impact on paddy farmers in war zones, but the slump in production is driving up prices for farmers in more stable areas, despite new onerous export restrictions.

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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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မောင်တောတွင် နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေးကို တပ်မတော်က အရှိန်မြှင့် ဆောင်ရွက်နေ

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့သို့ ယနေ့ မွန်းတည့် ၁၂ နာရီခန့်က စတင်ကာ တပ်မတော်သားများ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီး နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး လုပ်ငန်းများကို အရှိန်မြှင့်တင် စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Treasury bond auctions: A step in the right direction

The launch of treasury bond auctions by the government is a move toward more efficient public debt management that should result in lower inflation.

BY Jakob Krembzow

Affairs, Features

Substitute justice

Police are allowing criminals to avoid prison by substituting others in their place, in a practice that observers say is undermining the integrity of the justice system and efforts to combat organised crime.

BY Hein Ko Soe

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Tiger parts trade at Mong La tripled in 8 years, says watchdog

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Party politics and the Rakhine State commission

A statement by 11 political parties calling for the dissolution of the Rakhine State Advisory Commission has elicited dismay and regret from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Militants kill nine police, seize weapons in Maungdaw

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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မောင်တော တိုက်ခိုက်မှု၌ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ကိုးဦးသေဆုံး၊ ခရိုင်တစ်ခုလုံး ညမထွက်ရအချိန် တိုးမြှင့်

မောင်တောမြို့တွင် ယနေ့ နံနက်က ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့နှင့် အကြမ်းဖက် အဖွဲ့အစည်းတို့အကြား တိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်ကိုးဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီးနောက် မောင်တောခရိုင်တခုလုံးအတွင်း ညမထွက်ရအချိန်ကို ယခင်ကထက် တင်းကြပ်လိုက်ပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Frontier

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မောင်တော နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ် လက်နက်တိုက် လုယက်ခံရ၊ ရဲနှစ်ဦးသေဆုံး

လက်နက်တိုက်မှ လက်နက်မျိုးစုံ ၁၂၀ လက်ခန့်ကိုလည်း လာရောက်တိုက်ခိုက်သူများက ယူဆောင်သွားသည်ဟု သိရသည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Frontier

Affairs, Business, Features

Doing well by doing good

Many Myanmar companies are re-branding by giving back, but it will take more than philanthropy to leave the past behind.

BY Jared Downing

Opinion

How internal conflict in Shan State has kept it aloof from the Spring Revolution

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The hidden plight of Myanmar’s double minorities

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The UN can no longer play dumb to its manipulation by the Myanmar military

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The empire struck back: Oliver Slow’s ‘Return of the Junta’ reviewed

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The fading hopes of Myanmar’s university students

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Pregnant and displaced: the plight of a migrant worker in Thailand

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The house bringing joy to Myanmar migrants in Thailand

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Junta troops desecrate religious buildings in Magway by using them as barracks

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The fading hopes of Myanmar’s university students

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Pregnant and displaced: the plight of a migrant worker in Thailand

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The house bringing joy to Myanmar migrants in Thailand

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Junta troops desecrate religious buildings in Magway by using them as barracks

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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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