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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

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ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

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The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

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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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21 die in boat capsize off Rakhine coast

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Amendments will do little to clean up mining sector

More time is needed to draft a new Mines Law that prevents the human rights abuses seen in the past.

BY Vani Sathisan & Adam Moser

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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ကမ်းလွန်တွင် လှေနစ်မြုပ်မှုကြောင့် ကလေး ကိုးဦးအပါအဝင် အနည်းဆုံး ၂၁ ဦး သေဆုံး

လှေသည် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရသူများကို ထားရှိသည့် စခန်းတစ်ခုမှ ခရီးသည် ၆၀ ခန့်ကို တင်ဆောင်လာခဲ့သည်ဟု ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ပြောကြားသည်

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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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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

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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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The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

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An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

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‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

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Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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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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