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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

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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

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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)

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Amendments will do little to clean up mining sector

More time is needed to draft a new Mines Law that prevents the human rights abuses seen in the past.

BY Vani Sathisan & Adam Moser

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ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ် ကမ်းလွန်တွင် လှေနစ်မြုပ်မှုကြောင့် ကလေး ကိုးဦးအပါအဝင် အနည်းဆုံး ၂၁ ဦး သေဆုံး

လှေသည် နေရပ်စွန့်ခွာ ထွက်ပြေးခဲ့ရသူများကို ထားရှိသည့် စခန်းတစ်ခုမှ ခရီးသည် ၆၀ ခန့်ကို တင်ဆောင်လာခဲ့သည်ဟု ကုလသမဂ္ဂက ပြောကြားသည်

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FDI sets record $9.4b last year, Singapore tops list of investors

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Arakan National Party in turmoil

Long-standing internal divisions are threatening to tear apart the Arakan National Party amid its showdown with the National League for Democracy.

BY Min Min

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Dinner with the princess of Burma

For the first time in 76 years, the only surviving granddaughter of King Thibaw spoke recently in public in Yangon, where her family has been living quietly since 1919.

BY Jared Downing

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Maung Maung Ohn: 'Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again'

Former general and deputy minister for Home Affairs, U Maung Maung Ohn, was appointed Chief Minister of Rakhine State in 2014, replacing U Hla Maung. Although the Arakan National Party won a majority of seats in the Rakhine assembly last November, the National League for Democracy appointed as chief minister, the chair of its state branch, U Nyi Pu, an ethnic Rakhine.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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President pardons 83 political prisoners

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Maung Maung Ohn: ‘Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again’

Frontier sits down with U Maung Maung Ohn, the former Rakhine chief minister, to discuss ethnic conflict and insurgency in the troubled state.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ ဘယ်ဘက် မျက်လုံး ခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု အောင်မြင်

အထူးကုဆရာဝန်ကြီးများ၏ အကြံပြုချက်အရ ခွဲစိတ်ပြီးနောက် မျက်လုံးအား ရက်အနည်းငယ် အနားပေးရမည် ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier

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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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