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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

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A flood of need overwhelms humanitarian response in conflict-affected areas

Volunteers and humanitarians struggle to meet demand as shortages of food and medicine as well as fear of junta attacks haunt the lives of more than 900,000 internally displaced people in Myanmar.

BY Frontier

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

The environmental activists who campaigned to defend the nation’s forests are now hiding in them to save their lives and fearful of the destruction that the future and a rapacious military may bring.

BY Esther Wah

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

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

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Why the 2020 general election matters

A long history of military dictatorship and sham polls combined with tense relations between the National League for Democracy and the Tatmadaw make it essential a free and fair general election takes place later this year, despite the COVID-19 global pandemic.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar's Rakhine

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BY AFP

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Myanmar ships 800 freed Rohingya prisoners back to Rakhine

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BY AFP

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Driver killed in attack on UN vehicle in Myanmar’s Rakhine

A Myanmar government health worker was injured and his driver killed when their United Nations-marked vehicle was ambushed in Rakhine State.

BY AFP

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Podcast: Low-income workers in Sagaing prepare for the coronavirus

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BY Ei Ei Mon, Frontier & Win Zar Ni Aung

Features, Culture

Brotherhood of the wheel

In fairgrounds across Myanmar, Ferris wheels are turned by the muscle power of teams of young, agile men who form tight bonds in lives lived on the road.

BY Ivan Ogilvie

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The dream of a Kayan homeland

The Kayan New Land Party has not traded fire with the Tatmadaw for 26 years, but the armed group says it’s still striving to uplift the Kayan people and secure their autonomy.

BY Ashley South

News, Features

Community quarantine: On the rural frontline in the fight against COVID-19

Towns and villages across Myanmar have been guarding against COVID-19 by opening quarantine centres, but a government decision to exempt domestic travellers has potentially left them more vulnerable at a time of mass travel for Thingyan.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn, Ye Mon & Naw Betty Han

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Myanmar to release 25,000 prisoners amid virus fears

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BY AFP

Opinion

Losing the freedom to protect: The shattered dreams of environment defenders

Editorial, Opinion

Terrorism by any other name

Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

Doh Athan

Torture rife in Myanmar’s prisons

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Blood transfusions drying up

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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.

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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