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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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U Htin Kyaw: Myanmar, meet your new president

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BY Frontier, Mratt Kyaw Thu & Sean Gleeson

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A Rakhine for Rakhine or the Tatmadaw's man?

The people of Rakhine State want one of their own to become its next chief minister but they might be disappointed by the National League for Democracy.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Gambira charged on alleged immigration offences after 6 weeks in detention

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BY Frontier

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On Letpadan anniversary, rights groups urge end to 'relentless crackdown'

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BY Oliver Slow

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ကျောင်းသားများကို အကြမ်းဖက်မှု ရပ်တန့်ရန် လက်ပံတန်းအရေးအခင်း တစ်နှစ်ပြည့်တွင် တိုက်တွန်း

အမျိုးသားပညာရေးဥပဒေကို ကန့်ကွက်ဆန္ဒပြကြသော ကျောင်းသားများအား လက်ပံတန်းမြို့တွင် ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့က အင်အားသုံး အကြမ်းဖက် နှိမ်နှင်းဖမ်းဆီးအရေးယူခဲ့မှု တစ်နှစ်ပြည့်မြောက်ခဲ့သည့် ယနေ့တွင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးအုပ်စုများက မြန်မာအစိုးရကို တိုက်တွန်းခဲ့သည်

BY Oliver Slow

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On Letpadan anniversary, rights groups urge end to ‘relentless crackdown’

A year to the day since protestors were arrested in a heavy police crackdown at Letpadan, Bago Region, rights groups have urged the government to end its persecution of student activists.

BY Oliver Slow

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A Rakhine for Rakhine or the Tatmadaw’s man?

The people of Rakhine State want one of their own to become its next chief minister but they might be disappointed by the National League for Democracy.

BY Frontier

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Journeys of remembrance: World War II tourism in Myanmar

As the tourism industry continues to grow, some companies are offering tours tailored for visitors with a special and often deeply personal interest in the Burma Campaign of the Second World War.

BY Oliver Slow

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NLD mulling Myitsone Dam 'redesign', says advisor

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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

Latest Issue

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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