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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.

BY Frontier

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

BY Frontier

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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.

BY Frontier

Features

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.

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

Photo Essays, Features, Culture

Concrete canvas

The artists behind Myanmar’s small and shadowy graffiti scene are motivated more by the fundamentals of visual theory than they are by politics.

BY Jared Downing

Affairs, Interview

Andy Hall: ‘They would be happy if I would flee’

Andy Hall of the Migrant Worker Rights Network speaks with Frontier about the criminal charges levelled against him in Thailand and the Koh Tao murder case.

BY Joshua Carroll

Affairs

Yangon healers peddle 'miracle' cancer cure

A mysterious powder made by spiritual healers in Yangon is claimed to be effective against serious illnesses but there is no evidence it is anything more than a placebo.

BY Joshua Carroll

News Feed, News

Suu Kyi presidency hopes fade as vote brought forward

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အင်န်အယ်လ်ဒီ ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များ အမှားပြုလုပ်ပါက ပါတီသို့ တိုင်ကြားနိုင်

ပါတီ၏ လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်များအနေဖြင့် လွှတ်တော်ကိုယ်စားလှယ်တစ်ဦး၏ ဂုဏ်သိက္ခာနှင့်အညီ ပြုမူ ပြောဆိုနေထိုင်ကြရန်လည်း ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

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အယ်လ်နီညိုနဲ့ စားနပ်ရိက္ခာ ဖူလုံရေး

အယ်လ်နီညိုကြောင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသည် အခြားနိုင်ငံများနည်းတူ ယခုနှစ်၊ ပထမ ခြောက်လအတွင်း ပူပြင်းခြောက်သွေ့ခြင်း၊ မိုးခေါင်ခြင်းတို့ကြောင့် သီးနှံအထွက် ဆုတ်ယုတ်ခြင်းနှင့် စားနပ်ရိက္ခာ ပြတ်လပ်ခြင်းများ ကြုံတွေ့ရဖွယ် ရှိနေသည်

BY Soe Than Lynn & Frontier

Affairs, Features

Yangon healers peddle ‘miracle’ cancer cure

A mysterious powder made by spiritual healers in Yangon is claimed to be effective against serious illnesses but there is no evidence it is anything more than a placebo.

BY Joshua Carroll

Infographics, Features

Myanmar Geography 101

A rough guide to Myanmar's geography, from the temperate Kachin hills to the rainforests and coral reefs of Tanintharyi.

BY Jared Downing

Affairs, Interview, Features

Aung Naing Oo, the patient peace advocate

Former anti-government rebel Aung Naing Oo has been playing a key role in helping to end years of armed conflict through his work with the Myanmar Peace Center.

BY Oliver Slow

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

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

Opinion

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

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

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

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

Fear and terror in Magway

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

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

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

Fear and terror in Magway

Latest Issue

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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