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Migrants face arrest and exploitation in Thailand’s shadow economy

Thailand has just reopened its border to Myanmar workers, but a cumbersome application process and deepening poverty continues to push them down illegal paths.

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Migrants face arrest and exploitation in Thailand’s shadow economy

Thailand has just reopened its border to Myanmar workers, but a cumbersome application process and deepening poverty continues to push them down illegal paths.

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Editorial, Opinion

Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

If the National Unity Government wants to be taken seriously on the international stage, it needs to put forward a coherent, united, powerful vision for Myanmar’s future.

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

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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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Arakan National Party in turmoil

Long-standing internal divisions are threatening to tear apart the Arakan National Party amid its showdown with the National League for Democracy.

BY Min Min

Features

Dinner with the princess of Burma

For the first time in 76 years, the only surviving granddaughter of King Thibaw spoke recently in public in Yangon, where her family has been living quietly since 1919.

BY Jared Downing

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FDI sets record $9.4b last year, Singapore tops list of investors

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Maung Maung Ohn: 'Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again'

Former general and deputy minister for Home Affairs, U Maung Maung Ohn, was appointed Chief Minister of Rakhine State in 2014, replacing U Hla Maung. Although the Arakan National Party won a majority of seats in the Rakhine assembly last November, the National League for Democracy appointed as chief minister, the chair of its state branch, U Nyi Pu, an ethnic Rakhine.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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President pardons 83 political prisoners

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Maung Maung Ohn: ‘Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again’

Frontier sits down with U Maung Maung Ohn, the former Rakhine chief minister, to discuss ethnic conflict and insurgency in the troubled state.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ ဘယ်ဘက် မျက်လုံး ခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု အောင်မြင်

အထူးကုဆရာဝန်ကြီးများ၏ အကြံပြုချက်အရ ခွဲစိတ်ပြီးနောက် မျက်လုံးအား ရက်အနည်းငယ် အနားပေးရမည် ဖြစ်သည်

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ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ မျက်လုံးခွဲစိတ်ထားမှု အခြေအနေ ကောင်းမွန်

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် ဧပြီ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့၊ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းတွင် ရုံးတက်ကာ အရေးကြီး ကိစ္စများ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်

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တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးတွင် သြင်္ကန်ရေကစားမဏ္ဍပ် ၅၀၀ ခန့်ရှိမည်

ရန်ကုန်တွင် မဏ္ဍပ်အကြီး၊ အလတ်နှင့် အသေး စုစုပေါင်း ၂၀၀ ကျော်ရှိမည်ဖြစ်သည်

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Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

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?

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Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

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SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

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In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

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Blood transfusions drying up

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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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