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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)

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Affairs, Culture

California’s Burmese newspaper finds a new voice

A Burmese-language newspaper launched in California a decade ago is attracting more feedback from readers who were averse to its political coverage before 2010.

BY Peter Janssen

News, Affairs

Local government: Still a man's world

Of the nearly 18,000 local administrators elected across Myanmar in 2012, only 42 were women. As the country prepares to hold local elections, a new report has highlighted the extreme gender imbalance at the grassroots level of government.

BY Oliver Slow

News, Affairs

Raising the bar for Myanmar's journalists

The opening of the country’s first schools of journalism last year is helping to raise professional standards in the nation’s newsrooms.

BY Jared Downing

Business, Features

Myanmar fisheries keen to scale up

A long coastline and a wealth of inland waterways offer huge export growth potential for Myanmar’s fisheries industry, but overfishing poses a major problem.

BY Frontier & Oliver Slow

News

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BY Frontier

News, Affairs

Local government: Still a man’s world

As Myanmar prepares to hold local elections, a new report has highlighted the extreme gender imbalance at the grassroots level of government.

BY Frontier

News, Affairs

Raising the bar for Myanmar’s journalists

The opening of the country’s first schools of journalism last year is helping to raise professional standards in the nation’s newsrooms.

BY Jared Downing

Bizfeed, Business

Confusion reigns over new Condominium Law

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BY Peter Janssen & Soe Than Lynn

Culture

Maurice Collis: Colonial Burma's forgotten author

Maurice Collis wrote prolifically about Burma and his experiences as a colonial public servant, but 80 years after he lived in the country, few readers of English have heard of him.

BY Oliver Slow

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

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Opinion

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Opinion

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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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