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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

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Presidential vote next week, says Hluttaw office

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BY Soe Than Lynn & Sean Gleeson

News Feed

သမ္မတနှင့် ဒုသမ္မတများ ရွေးချယ် အတည်ပြုမှု မတ် ၁၄ ရက်ထက် မစောနိုင်

အဖွဲ့သုံးဖွဲ့က ရွေးချယ်ထားသူ သုံးဦးကို သမ္မတနှင့် ဒုတိယသမ္မတများ အရည်အချင်း စိစစ်ရေးအဖွဲ့က မတ်လ ၁၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် စိစစ်ကြမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn & Frontier

Opinion

A matter of priorities

If a commitment to realise the will of the electorate was more important than haggling over a title, Myanmar would not be sitting on a constitutional crisis.

BY Khin Zaw Win

Culture

The flowering of Myanmar's fashion industry

The opening of the country has been a boon for the fashion industry, paving the way for special events featuring some of the country’s best-known designers.

BY Noe Noe Aung

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နေပြည်တော်တွင် တပ်မတော် တိုက်လေယာဉ်တစ်စီး မတော်တဆမှု ဖြစ်ပွား

တပ်မတော်ကာကွယ်ရေး ဦးစီးချုပ်ရုံး၏ ဖေ့ဘုတ်စာမျက်နှာတွင် တင်ထားသော ဓာတ်ပုံအရ အဆိုပါ လေယာဉ်မှာ တရုတ်နိုင်ငံထုတ် အင်ဂျင်တစ်လုံးတပ် J-7 တိုက်လေယာဉ်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier

Culture

The flowering of Myanmar’s fashion industry

The opening of the country has been a boon for the fashion industry, paving the way for special events featuring some of the country’s best-known designers.

BY Noe Noe Aung

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The path to a smooth transition

Achieving a smooth transition will require both the NLD and the Tatmadaw to act strictly according to the provisions of the controversial 2008 Constitution.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Interview, Culture

American Robert Carmack and Australian Morrison Polkinghorne, co-authors of The Burma Cookbook, named the world’s Best Asian Cookbook of 2015 at the Best in the World Gourmand awards last year, first visited Yangon in 2000 after winning several nights at The Strand Hotel at a charity auction.

BY Peter Janssen

News, Affairs, Features

A whiff of corruption at Mrauk U

Budget allocations for restoration work have risen dramatically at the nation’s second most important archeological after Bagan, but there’s little to show for it.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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?

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

Blood transfusions drying up

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

Blood transfusions drying up

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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