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As COVID-19 surges, prices of medical goods follow suit

Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.

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As COVID-19 surges, prices of medical goods follow suit

Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.

BY Frontier

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The NUG’s Rohingya policy: ‘Campaign statement’ or genuine reform?

The National Unity Government’s plan to end discrimination against the Rohingya and replace the 1982 Citizenship Law could face opposition from among its own supporters – if the parallel government gets the chance to implement it.

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‘A threat to the revolution’: Pyusawhti returns to post-coup Myanmar

A network of hardline, pro-military groups known as Pyusawhti is doing its best to spread terror among the population as it fights a dirty war against the democratic forces resisting the coup.

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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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ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်မှ သမ္မတကတော် နှုတ်ထွက်

ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်မှ နှုတ်ထွက်ကာ Frist Lady အဖြစ်သာ နေထိုင်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier & Soe Than Lynn

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သမ္မတ၏ အဆောင်အယောင် ရွှေစလွယ်ကို သမ္မတသစ် ဦးထင်ကျော်ထံ ဦးသိန်းစိန်က လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်

သမ္မတသစ်ဦးထင်ကျော်ထံ သမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန်က နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မအ၏ တာဝန်များနှင့်လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်များ လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်

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ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ ပြင်ဆင်ရေး ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဟု သမ္မတသစ် ဦးထင်ကျော်က ပထမဆုံး မိန့်ခွန်းတွင် ပြောကြား

အစိုးရသစ်အနေဖြင့် အမျိုးသားရင်ကြားစေ့ရေး၊ ပြည်တွင်းငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီဖက်ဒရယ် ပြည်ထောင်စု ဖြစ်ပေါ်ရေးကို ရှေးရှုသည့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေတစ်ခု ပေါ်ပေါက်ရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူလူထုအများစု၏ လူနေမှုအဆင့်အတန်း တိုးတက် မြင့်မားလာရေးတို့အား အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဟု ပြောကြား

BY Frontier

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A Sayadaw’s sanctuary for the needy

A meditation centre on Yangon’s outskirts is home for hundreds of destitute, disabled and diseased people who are encouraged to solve their problems by seeking refuge in the Dhamma.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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A Sayadaw's sanctuary for the needy

A meditation centre on Yangon’s outskirts is home for hundreds of destitute, disabled and diseased people who are encouraged to solve their problems by seeking refuge in the Dhamma.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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Remembering ‘Ne Win’s coup’

The 54th anniversary earlier this month of General Ne Win’s 1962 coup marked an event that continues to resonate in contemporary Myanmar.

BY Oliver Slow

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Govt reveals chief minister picks, all NLD members

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BY Sean Gleeson

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China, the NLD and the Myitsone dam imbroglio

The National League for Democracy government faces a huge challenge in diplomatic relations with China over the future of the controversial Myitsone dam project.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Viettel to negotiate with military-backed firm for fourth telco license

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BY Sann Oo

Opinion

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The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

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Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

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The NUG must commit to human rights for all Myanmar’s people

Business, Opinion

A crisis of confidence looms over Myanmar’s banks

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

Doh Athan

Video: Below the poverty line

Doh Athan

Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

Doh Athan

Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

Doh Athan

Video: Below the poverty line

Doh Athan

Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

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Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

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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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