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Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

Journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.

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Features

Breaking newsrooms: Are Myanmar’s exiled journalists getting a fair deal?

BY Frontier

Features

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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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

News, Affairs

Rakhine's food aid racket

Residents of camps for the internally displaced in Rakhine State say they are not receiving the food aid to which they are entitled and management committees are to blame.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Affairs, Business

Great expectations for Yangon’s young job hunters

In the wake of Myanmar's economic and political reforms, the job market is more complicated than ever, as some salaries soar while unemployment remains high.

BY Ann Wang

Affairs, Interview

U Shwe Maung, former USDP MP: ‘This is illogical and ridiculous’

U Shwe Maung has been a rare advocate for the Rohingya in the ruling USDP since being elected to the seat of Buthidaung in 2010. He has now cut ties with his party.

BY Alex Bookbinder

News, Affairs

Rakhine’s food aid racket

Residents of camps for the internally displaced in Rakhine State say they are not receiving the food aid to which they are entitled and management committees are to blame.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Bizfeed, Business

Dawei megaproject back on track: Thai firm

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Election 2015, Opinion

What else could be expected?

The strong-arm tactics used to remove Thura U Shwe Mann as ruling party chairman may have ominous implications for other parties.

BY Khin Zaw Win

Bizfeed, Business

Citigroup, StanChart to help Myanmar credit rating quest

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Photo Essays, Affairs

Turn up the volume

Under a bridge in downtown Yangon, a few dozen young rappers gather for a late night jam session, leaping around the cracked pavement and rusty beams, flinging words into the air like shrapnel. One slaps a stencil against a pillar and spray paints it black, leaving the words “G-FAMILY” enshrined on the concrete.

BY Jared Downing

News Feed, Bizfeed, Business

Myanmar Beer to go global: Kirin

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

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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