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US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis

United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.

BY Frontier

Features

US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis

BY Frontier

Opinion

Myanmar’s resistance faces a moral quandary after the quake

The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.

BY Frontier

Features

New junta rules curb aid to Mandalay quake victims

Attempts by the regime to more tightly control assistance to people affected by the recent earthquake have had a chilling effect on volunteer aid efforts in Myanmar’s second largest city.

BY Frontier

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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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BY Frontier & Frontier

News, Affairs

High education: Yangon's university drugs epidemic

Drug abuse is emerging as a serious problem at universities in Yangon and police say there’s increasing evidence that some students are among the dealers.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Business

Nanny culture nurtures cautious financial system

Strict rules introduced after the financial crisis are holding back the financial sector but the independence of the central bank could be a barrier to the NLD’s reform plans.

BY Peter Janssen

Bizfeed, Business

Investment in Thilawa SEZ reaches $760m: report

Thilawa Special Economic Zone has attracted US$760 million in investment since plots went on sale there in March 2014.

BY Frontier

Interview, Features

We hope that now is the time to rebuild the nation’

Frontier speaks with Colonel Hkun Okker, patron of the Pa-O National Liberation Organisation.

BY Frontier

News, Affairs, Features

High education: Yangon’s university drugs epidemic

Drug abuse is emerging as a serious problem at universities in Yangon and police say there’s increasing evidence that some students are among the dealers.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Affairs, Features

In western Myanmar, a town ravaged by the drugs trade

Kalay pays a heavy price for its strategic location near the Indian border, as police fight in vain against a flood of drugs.

BY Myanmar Now

News, Affairs, Features

The state of ethnic affairs

Since independence, Myanmar’s ethnic minorities have felt ignored by the central government. A new ministry focusing on ethnic affairs was supposed to change that, but there is little clarity about its actual role.

BY Hein Ko Soe

News, Affairs, Features

All the praise that’s fit to print

Despite promising reform of state media outlets, the National League for Democracy government has instead been accused of continuing to use them as propaganda machines.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

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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.

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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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