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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

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Once more into the breach: Veterans redeployed

With the Myanmar military overstretched, veterans are being recalled into service, angering them and their families, but there is little sympathy for their plight in the broader public.

BY Frontier

Features

New sheriffs in town: Brotherhood takes charge

After ethnic armed groups conquered Myanmar’s northern Shan State, residents have welcomed their efforts to restore public order, but continued instability keeps the economy hobbled while ethnic tensions remain.

BY Frontier

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A world apart: Myanmar-Chinese find a home in Taiwan

A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.

BY Frontier

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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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အွန်လိုင်းပေါ်ကို ရွှေ့ပြောင်းလာတဲ့ လောင်းကစားလုပ်ငန်းတွေ

လူမှုကွန်ယက် ဝက်ဘ်ဆိုက်တွေ၊ ဘဏ်တွေကိုအသုံးပြုပြီး လောင်းရတဲ့စနစ်တစ်ခုကို ဒိုင်တွေက တီထွင်ခဲ့ပြီး ဘောလုံးပွဲလောင်းကစားသူများကို ဆွဲဆောင်နေပါတယ်

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Michel Fonteyne-Leitao, restaurateur: ‘Let’s tell people what a special place this is’

Michel Fonteyne-Leitao and his wife, Fanny, are the founders of La Terrazza and La Pizza restaurants in Bagan. What he calls his “love affair” with Myanmar began when he met a friendly taxi driver in Yangon more than 10 years ago. He spoke to Frontier about the key to being a successful restaurateur in Myanmar and his passion for Bagan.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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Myint Swe revealed as military VP pick

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BY Sean Gleeson

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Htin Kyaw, Henry Van Thio confirmed as VP nominees

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Sean Gleeson

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Suu Kyi explains presidential picks to NLD MPs

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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A very Myanmar double feature

A recent double feature at the Thamada Cinema offered a rather unusual take on political satire and the story of the nation’s first plane hijacking.

BY Feliz Solomon

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ဒုတိယ ဗိုလ်ချုပ်ကြီးဟောင်း ဦးမြင့်ဆွေအား ဒုတိယသမ္မတအဖြစ် တပ်မတော်က ရွေးချယ်တင်မြှောက်

BY Soe Than Lynn

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ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီက ပါတီ၏ စီအီးစီအဖွဲ့ဝင် ခြောက်ဦးအား ခုံရုံးဖွဲ့ စစ်ဆေးအရေးယူရန် စီစဉ်နေ

အင်န်အယ်လ်ဒီက ကမ်းလှမ်းပါက ပူးပေါင်းဆောင်ရွက်ဟု ပြောကြားခဲ့သည့် စီအီစီအဖွဲ့ဝင် ခြောက်ဦးအား ပါတီစည်းကမ်းများဖြင့် ခုံရုံးဖွဲ့အရေးယူမည်ဟု ရခိုင်အမျိုးသားပါတီက ပြောကြားခဲ့သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

Features

Art history: Myanmar as South Asia

The participation of Myanmar artists in an exhibition of South Asian works at the recent Dhaka Art Summit raises questions about the regional ‘ownership’ of art.

BY Nathalie Johnston

Opinion

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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