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The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.

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The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

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Fresh clashes in northern Shan open old wounds and displace thousands

An escalation in fighting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Tatmadaw near the town of Mong Ko on the China border has emptied villages, while inflaming longstanding tensions over who controls the area.

BY Jaw Tu Hkawng, Jauman Naw & Emily Fishbein

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Garment workers face a fresh threat: a boycott

As military repression ramps up, some trade unions and activists are calling on brands to boycott Myanmar’s garment sector – but not everyone believes the campaign will hit its intended target.

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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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Mixed reaction to new ethnic ministry

The decision to create a Ministry of Ethnic Affairs has been welcomed by many but some worry it will reduce the influence of ethnic MPs in the Union Parliament.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Soe Than Lynn

Editorial, Opinion

The NLD’s poor record on media engagement

The NLD's recent attitude towards the media flies in the face of the party's claim it will usher in a new era of government transparency.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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New government to face challenges for economic progress: ADB

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BY Sann Oo

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သမ္မတအထက်ကို ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ရောက်သွားတော့မှာလား

အဆိုပါ ဥပဒေအား ပြဌာန်းပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့အား တာဝန်ခံ ဦးဆောင်နိုင်မည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

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Htin Kyaw sworn in as new president on historic day

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BY AFP

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Critical connections

Speakers at a TEDx event in Yangon that symbolised the hope for a better future make a powerful impression with recollections of the nation’s troubled past.

BY Sean Gleeson

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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

Opinion

The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

News, Business, Opinion

The economics behind Min Aung Hlaing’s grand delusions

Opinion

Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

Opinion

Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

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Podcast: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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Podcast: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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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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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

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