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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.

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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

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

News Feed, News

Down and out: Junta offers scant help to homeless civil servants

Myanmar’s earthquake has left the regime’s already shaky administration reeling, with thousands of its staff in the capital now living in temporary shelters and complaining of limited assistance from their masters.

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)

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Fear and loathing at the exchange counter

There are three possible reasons why money changers are obsessively fussy about US dollar bills and one of them is more plausible than the others.

BY Joshua Carroll

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ပြဿ နာများကို နှစ်နိုင်ငံ ချစ်ကြည်မှုဖြင့် ဖြေရှင်းမည်ဟု တရုတ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ပြောကြား

မစ္စတာဝမ်ရီသည် သမ္မတဦးထင်ကျော် ဦးဆောင်သည့် အစိုးရသစ် တက်လာပြီးနောက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ပထမဆုံး လာရောက်သည့် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

News, Affairs, Features

The lost dream of affordable housing

High land prices and a shortage of low-cost housing means that many Yangon residents can only ever dream of owning a home of their own.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Culture

Yangon's Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

BY Jared Downing

Features, Culture

Yangon’s Christian community

Christianity is one of the smallest religions in Myanmar in terms of numbers but its roots of tradition and community run deep.

BY Jared Downing

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The Tatmadaw must work with the NLD

The Tatmadaw must be prepared to work closely and constructively with the NLD government for the nation to achieve peace, stability and development.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှစ်ခုအား ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် လက်လွှဲမည်

လျှပ်စစ်နှင့် စွမ်းအင်ဝန်ကြီးဌာနနှင့် ပညာရေးဝန်ကြီးဌာနတို့အတွက် ပြည်ထောင်စုဝန်ကြီးသစ်နှစ်ဦးအား ထပ်မံခန့်အပ်မည်ဖြစ်သည်။

BY Soe Than Lynn

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အတိုင်ပင်ခံပုဂ္ဂိုလ်ဆိုင်ရာ ဥပဒေကြမ်း ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ရောက်ပြီ

ဥပဒေအတည်ပြုပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်အနေဖြင့် အချုပ်အခြာအာဏာ သုံးရပ်စလုံးတွင် ပါဝင်ခွင့် ရရှိသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier & Soe Than Lynn

News, Affairs

Flood misery lingers for many

Shortages of adequate supplies of safe, nutritious food continue to affect poor rural communities hit hard by last year’s floods, says a report by two UN agencies.

BY Oliver Slow

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.

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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