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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

A split in the Tatmadaw has been unlikely since its founding in 1962, but a steady increase in defections and desertions since the coup amid plunging morale has some questioning whether unity can be maintained within the nation’s most powerful institution.

BY Ye Myo Hein

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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

BY Ye Myo Hein

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Channelling hate and disinformation: Myanmar’s bad actors move to Telegram

Since being banned from Facebook, some of the most prominent spreaders of hate speech and disinformation have moved to Telegram, and fact-checkers say the messaging app is doing little to regulate its platform.

BY Andrew Nachemson

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‘Workers have lost all their rights’: Coup and third wave leave factory workers at risk

Some factory owners have been accused of exploiting and failing to protect their employees during the latest COVID-19 outbreak, and with unions lying low since the coup, workers are unable to seek redress.

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

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Activists championed by rights groups have history of anti-Rohingya messaging

Some prominent activists who say they stand for human rights and democracy have propagated hatred for the Rohingya, a double-standard that international watchdog groups weren’t fully aware of.

BY Andrew Nachemson & Lun Min Mang

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Podcast: Power to the people

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BY Ko Zaw & Frontier

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‘It’s totally outrageous’: Investors urge review of solar tender

The Ministry of Electricity and Energy has issued a tender for 1,060 megawatts of on-grid solar power but given investors just a month to prepare bids at a time when they are unable to enter or travel around the country.

BY Thomas Kean

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In Tanintharyi, an indigenous alternative to Big Conservation

Communities in biodiverse Tanintharyi Region are spurning big, top-down projects and seeking recognition for their own approach to conservation.

BY Jack Jenkins Hill

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Fever clinics: the first line of defence against COVID-19

Fever clinics are being set up around the country to check people for symptoms of the viral disease and ease the burden on hospitals, but a planned reopening of schools could force many of them to move or close.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

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သတ္တုတွင်းလုပ်ငန်း ညစ်ညမ်းမှုဒဏ် ဒေသခံတို့ ခါးစည်းခံနေရ

ပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ညစ်ညမ်းပျက်စီးအောင် လုပ်ဆောင်နေကြသော သတ္တုတွင်းတူးဖော်ရေးကုမ္ပဏီများနှင့် နှစ်များစွာကြာ တရားရုံးရင်ဆိုင်မှု၌ ဒေသခံပြည်သူများ အနိုင်ရသွားခဲ့ခြင်းမှာ ချီးကျူးထိုက်ပါပေသည်။ သို့ရာတွင် ယင်းကုမ္ပဏီများအား တာဝန်ယူမှု၊ တာဝန်ခံမှုရှိလာအောင် အစိုးရက မလုပ်ဆောင်သေးသည့်အတွက် ထိုအောင်ပွဲမှာ မေးခွန်းထုတ်စရာဖြစ်နေသည်။

BY Ben Hardman

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Min Aung Hlaing reshuffles senior military ranks ahead of election

Newly-appointed quartermaster general becomes the youngest lieutenant-general in the Tatmadaw as he continues a steady rise through the ranks.

BY Nanda

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'Off-the-charts' Myanmar drug busts reveal fentanyl first

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BY AFP

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Off-the-charts’ Myanmar drug busts reveal fentanyl first

Myanmar has made Southeast Asia's largest-ever seizure of synthetic drugs in raids that revealed the "unprecedented" production of opioids, the UN said Monday.

BY AFP

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Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

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Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

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The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

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Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

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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: Locals battle checkpoints and movement restrictions in Dawei

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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: Locals battle checkpoints and movement restrictions in Dawei

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Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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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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