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Left to die: Myanmar political prisoners denied healthcare

Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.

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Left to die: Myanmar political prisoners denied healthcare

Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.

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Features

Communities strive to shield youth from conscription

Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.

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Features

‘Really puzzling’: Myanmar’s uranium mystery

The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.

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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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Interview, Business

Surbana CEO Wong Heang Fine: 'Myanmar has less hidden baggage'

Singapore’s transition from backwater to global city has made it the envy of the developing world and Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd. has been a prominent ambassador of the city-state’s model abroad. The company has roots in Singapore’s Housing Development Board, which developed the city-state’s enviable public housing program, and JTC Corporation, which helped to turn the country into an industrial powerhouse.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Affairs, Election 2015

The NLD's broken promises

The NLD central election committee’s decision to exclude popular, respected figures from its candidates list generates a backlash within the party.

BY Oliver Slow

News, Affairs

Myanmar making ‘significant efforts’ on human trafficking: US

The United States has ranked Myanmar as a Tier 2 Watch List country on its annual Trafficking in Persons report for the fourth consecutive year.

BY Oliver Slow

News Feed, Affairs

ABSDF urges inclusiveness in reform process

Former rebel student army, the All Burma Students Democratic Front, has called on the government to include all the country’s ethnic groups in the peace process aimed at ending decades of civil conflict.

BY Oliver Slow

Inside Myanmar, Culture

Keeping ancient traditions alive in Myanmar puppetry

Myanmar puppetry, an artform dating back to the 15th century, is melding ancient traditions with modernity to embrace a new audience.

BY Oliver Slow

Interview, Business

Surbana CEO Wong Heang Fine: ‘Myanmar has less hidden baggage’

Wong Heang Fine, the chief executive of Surbana Jurong, on the Singaporean company’s role in Myanmar’s urban and industrial renaissance.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Inside Myanmar, Culture

Cartoonists and the freedom to satirise

Since Myanmar's political reforms began in 2011, cartoons have become increasingly effective as a media tool, as authorities treat satirists with a lighter touch.

BY Oliver Slow

Sithu Aung Myint, Election 2015, Opinion

The NLD and the ethnic parties

There is still time for Myanmar's main opposition party to forge alliances with ethnic political parties.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Bizfeed, Business

MPT unveils partnership with Japan's LINE

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BY Frontier

Opinion

Video: A fading dream of return for Myanmar migrant families

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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.

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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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