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‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

The return of Rohingya militants to the state in recent years to fight the Arakan Army has led to a string of alleged abuses against civilians, and has imperilled relations with the Rakhine community.

BY Frontier

Features

‘They don’t represent us’: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine

BY Frontier

Interview, Features

Q&A: Explaining Myanmar’s private security law

Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.

BY Frontier

Features

Striking oil: Magway Region’s resource wealth draws junta fire

An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.

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)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Sithu Aung Myint, Election 2015, Opinion

The Carter Center’s route to a free election

The recommendations to Myanmar's Union Election Commission will help to ensure a ballot untainted by fraud and misconduct.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Sithu Aung Myint, Election 2015, Opinion

The Carter Center's route to a free election

The recommendations to Myanmar's Union Election Commission will help to ensure a ballot untainted by fraud and misconduct.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Interview, Business

Thin Lei Win, Myanmar Now: 'We’re not going to shy away from controversial topics’

Thin Lei Win left Myanmar during her teens and has worked as a journalist in Singapore, the United Kingdom and Vietnam, among others. In February this year, she returned to the country to help set up Myanmar Now, a press agency supported by the Thomson Reuters Foundation that produces stories in English and Myanmar. She spoke to Frontier about what the organisation can add to Myanmar’s media landscape and the future of journalism in the country.

BY Hans Hulst

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 Union Solidarity and Development Party since being elected to the lower house seat of Buthidaung in northern Rakhine State in 2010. Earlier this month, he announced his intention to cut ties with the USDP and contest the November 8 election as an independent.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Affairs, Election 2015, Features

Abu Taher: repressed and rejected

Rohingya politician and human rights activist Abu Taher is no rookie. He ran for parliament for the National Democratic Party for Development in the 2010 elections and won the Upper House seat for Buthidaung, Rakhine State. But the Union Election Commission accused him of breaking campaigning laws, and after a grueling, year-long appeal process his opponent from the Union Solidarity and Development Party was finally awarded the seat.

BY Hans Hulst

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

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

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Opinion

Doh Athan

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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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