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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

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Blocking the exits: Myanmar junta turns the screws on migrant workers

Desperate for foreign exchange, the regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

The junta says the population count will help prepare for an election but it’s more likely meant to flush out dissidents, in an exercise that is destined to flop.

BY Frontier

Features

Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady

As fighting spreads to southern Rakhine, thousands have fled for neighbouring Ayeyarwady, where they’ve had a frosty reception as the junta tightens security in one of its few remaining stable strongholds.

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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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High and dry in Chin State

Eight months after devastating floods, some villagers in Chin State whose homes were destroyed are moving their entire communities to higher, safer ground.

BY Oliver Slow

Features

Thein Sein: A presidential timeline

Frontier looks back over key events during the term of President U Thein Sein, an unassuming former general whose reforms laid the foundation for a transformed Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Backpage, Opinion

On the road with #078373328

A new passport kindles memories of an encounter with a Gautemalan Rasta named Fresh, a frog from a Thai market and a bus to Mexico City.

BY Jared Downing

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$40m IFC package to lift capacity, efficiency at MIP container terminal

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Woodside confident of Myanmar growth: Chairman

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BY Sean Gleeson

Affairs, Business

Mandalay’s cooling property market

The Mandalay real estate market is in the doldrums and the reasons include factors special to the former royal capital, such as a downturn in the gems trade and a crackdown on drug trafficking.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံ၏ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးမူဝါဒကို မပြောင်းလဲပဲ နည်းလမ်းအသစ်ဖြင့် ချဉ်းကပ်မည်

ငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ကြွယ်ဝချမ်းသာမှု၊ ချစ်ကြည်ရင်းနှီးမှုတွေကို ဒေသတွင်းသာမက တစ်ကမ္ဘာလုံးခံစားနိုင်တဲ့ အခွင့်အလမ်းအနေနဲ့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြောင်းလည်း ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ပြောကြားခဲ့တယ်

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ပြည်ခိုင်ဖြိုးပါတီ ဗဟိုညီလာခံကို ဇူလိုင်တွင် ကျင်းပရန် လျာထား

ပါတီ၏ ဗဟိုကော်မတီအစည်းအဝေးကို ယနေ့ ဧပြီ ၂၁ ရက်နေ့တွင် နေပြည်တော်ရှိ ပါတီရုံးချုပ်တွင် ကျင်းပနေသည်

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Photo Essays, Affairs, Features

The healing of Meiktila

Three years after it was torn apart by communal violence, Meiktila continues a slow recovery that is being aided by efforts to promote interfaith understanding.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Opinion

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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