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Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis

Unwilling to accept military rule, many in Kachin are looking to the Kachin Independence Organization to fill a void in governance. As the KIO strengthens its influence, it is facing mounting pressure to regulate environmentally destructive gold mining.

BY Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw & Jaw Tu Hkawng

Science, News

Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis

BY Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw & Jaw Tu Hkawng

Features

Scam City: How the coup brought Shwe Kokko back to life

The Karen Border Guard Force is providing the military with frontline soldiers in exchange for business protection, allowing its “new city” project to emerge as a hub for online scams.

BY Frontier

Culture, Opinion

Sellouts and false prophets: Cinema in the Myanmar revolution

The coup is worsening the long-standing tendency to judge cultural output – and film in particular – based on moral convictions.

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

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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

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ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှစ်ခုအား ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် လက်လွှဲမည်

လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့အတွက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်နှစ်ဦးအား ထပ်မံခန့်အပ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်။

BY Soe Than Lynn

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အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေကြမ်း ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ရောက်ပြီ

ဥပဒေအတည်ပြုပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အနေဖြင့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာ သုံးရပ်စလုံးတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့် ရရှိသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier & Soe Than Lynn

News, Affairs

Flood misery lingers for many

Shortages of adequate supplies of safe, nutritious food continue to affect poor rural communities hit hard by last year’s floods, says a report by two UN agencies.

BY Oliver Slow

Editorial, Opinion

The importance of self-governing

Praise of Myanmar's reform success under Thein Sein fail to note that very little has changed on the country's periphery.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

Doh Athan

‘We want a peaceful life’: Pauk residents live in fear

Doh Athan

Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

‘I don’t feel safe’

Doh Athan

The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

Doh Athan

‘We want a peaceful life’: Pauk residents live in fear

Doh Athan

Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

‘I don’t feel safe’

Doh Athan

The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

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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.

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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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