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Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.

BY Frontier

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Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

BY Frontier

Features

Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

BY Frontier

Features

New sheriffs in town: Brotherhood takes charge

After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.

BY Frontier

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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

Affairs, Business, Features

How to boost Myanmar entrepreneurs

There’s huge potential for startups in Myanmar, but entrepreneurs need resilience, determination, passion and financial backing to turn their bright ideas into successful businesses. More government support would help, too.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features, Culture

It’s like freedom’: Myanmar heavy metal crashes into the open

While underground metal musicians managed to stay out of jails during the junta era, their jarring sound and brooding political lyrics were once publicly silenced.

BY AFP

Affairs, Interview, Business

It’s time for the US to treat Myanmar fairly’

Frontier sits down with Eric Rose, lead director of Herzfeld Rubin Meyer & Rose, the first US law firm established in Myanmar.

BY Peter Janssen

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Fighting for peace in Muse, the KIA shoots itself in the foot

The surprise offensive by the Northern Brotherhood alliance in northern Shan State is a setback for the peace process and the cause of national reconciliation.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News Feed, News

MPs lambast Yangon Region budget bill

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BY Su Myat Mon & Frontier

Opinion

Learning lessons, and looking for bright spots, after the US election

Four Myanmar women recently travelled to the US to witness the historic election there, and despite many criticisms of the campaign, still found many positives to be taken from the country’s political system.

BY Mindy Walker

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Daylight truck ban begins in Yangon, snarls Strand Rd traffic for 5 hours

A decision by the Yangon regional government to ban heavy trucks from the city’s streets during the day was blamed for a massive traffic jam on Strand Road yesterday.

BY Frontier

Affairs, Features

In northern Shan State, husbands and sons disappear

IDP camp residents say abductions and forced recruitment are increasing as the war between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups grinds on.

BY Andrew Nachemson

Editorial, Opinion

Still searching for peace

There is a way for the State Counsellor to end the impasse that has led to yet more armed clashes in Myanmar's north.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

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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