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Education vs. revolution: school reopenings bring hard choices

When the Myanmar military reopened the nation’s schools in November, millions of students found themselves forced to choose between maintaining the boycott of state services and losing even more of their education.

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Education, News

Education vs. revolution: school reopenings bring hard choices

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Science

COVID cover up: third wave death toll may be in hundreds of thousands

Six months ago, Myanmar endured a catastrophe as its health system was overwhelmed with seriously ill COVID-19 patients. A Frontier investigation finds that the true death toll may be in the hundreds of thousands, as most were never counted.

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News, Business, Features

Desperate job seekers an easy target for scammers

With Myanmar’s economy in turmoil and unemployment on the rise, thousands are trying to find work abroad but are having to navigate border closures and unscrupulous brokers.

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Highlights

News Feed, News

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

Affairs, Interview

Hkyet Hting Nan: ‘One day we will have a Kachin president’

U Hkyet Hting Nan is an Amyotha Hluttaw MP and chairman of the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State. He spoke to Frontier about his hopes for autonomy in Kachin State and for a federal Myanmar.

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News Feed, Bizfeed, Business

Highway tensions: Security row linked to Tatmadaw, DKBA clashes

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Traders Hotel bomber gets life sentence

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Business

The kyat's merry money-go-round

Did the diverging informal and formal kyat rates just earn Myanmar's banks a load of money?

BY Manny Maung

Business

The kyat’s merry money-go-round

Did the diverging informal and formal kyat rates just earn Myanmar's banks a lot of money?

BY Manny Maung

News Feed

Bangkok urged to negotiate deal for Myanmar waters

A fishermen’s organisation in southern Thailand wants Thai trawlers to be allowed to operate in Myanmar waters.

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News Feed, News

Myanmar condemns UN resolution on Muslims as ‘totally wrong’

Myanmar has denounced a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that called on the government to grant full citizenship to Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.

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Bizfeed, Business

OCBC Bank opens Myanmar office

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Affairs, Interview

Reflections on a windmill tilt

Frontier spoke to Khin Maung Swe, leader of Myanmar's National Democratic Force, about his opinion on the defeat of constitutional amendments in parliament this week.

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Opinion

The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

News, Business, Opinion

The economics behind Min Aung Hlaing’s grand delusions

Opinion

Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

Opinion

Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

Doh Athan

Podcast: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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Podcast: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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Video: Myanmar’s disabled fight COVID-19

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Video: Medical volunteers on the frontlines

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Podcast: Military accused of multiple massacres in Sagaing

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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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