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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Features

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

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

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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

Photo Essays, Features

‘It’s a life-changing exam’

It’s been a gruelling few weeks for students sitting the all-important matriculation exam, regarded as a crucial step towards achieving a successful life and career.

BY Ann Wang

Affairs, Business

Fear and loathing at the exchange counter

There are three possible reasons why money changers are obsessively fussy about US dollar bills and one of them is more plausible than the others.

BY Joshua Carroll

News Feed

ပြဿ နာများကို နှစ်နိုင်ငံ ချစ်ကြည်မှုဖြင့် ဖြေရှင်းမည်ဟု တရုတ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ပြောကြား

မစ္စတာဝမ်ရီသည် သမ္မတဦးထင်ကျော် ဦးဆောင်သည့် အစိုးရသစ် တက်လာပြီးနောက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ပထမဆုံး လာရောက်သည့် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

News, Affairs, Features

The lost dream of affordable housing

High land prices and a shortage of low-cost housing means that many Yangon residents can only ever dream of owning a home of their own.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Culture

Yangon's Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

BY Jared Downing

Features, Culture

Yangon’s Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

BY Jared Downing

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The Tatmadaw must work with the NLD

The Tatmadaw must be prepared to work closely and constructively with the NLD government for the nation to achieve peace, stability and development.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News Feed

ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှစ်ခုအား ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် လက်လွှဲမည်

လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့အတွက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်နှစ်ဦးအား ထပ်မံခန့်အပ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်။

BY Soe Than Lynn

News Feed

အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေကြမ်း ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ရောက်ပြီ

ဥပဒေအတည်ပြုပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အနေဖြင့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာ သုံးရပ်စလုံးတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့် ရရှိသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier & Soe Than Lynn

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

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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.

News Feed, News

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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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders