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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

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Kachin public calls on KIO to address gold mining crisis

BY Emily Fishbein, Jauman Naw & Jaw Tu Hkawng

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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.

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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)

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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

Affairs, Features

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

Affairs, Features

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

News Feed, News

Govt reveals chief minister picks, all NLD members

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BY Sean Gleeson

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

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

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Broken promises, daunting challenges

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Photo Essays, Features

Trash to treasure

The Chu Chu project is turning rubbish collected from Yangon’s streets into recycled crafts and one of its objectives to encourage different thinking about waste.

BY Jared Downing

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First shares launched on fledgling stock exchange

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Is the NUG ready for the world stage?

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

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Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

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‘I don’t feel safe’

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The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

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

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Human shields and extortion in Kayin conflict

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‘I don’t feel safe’

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The devastating impact of coal in Shan State

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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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