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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

BY Frontier

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

BY Frontier

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ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

BY Frontier

Features

The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

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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Myanmar village destruction has ‘hallmarks’ of military: HRW

At least 200 houses and other buildings were destroyed by fire in an incident that has "all the hallmarks" of previous military arson attacks, a rights group said Tuesday.

BY AFP

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No air quality dividend for Yangon amid COVID-19

Even as factories close and many people stay home, air pollution in Yangon has remained stubbornly bad, and the agriculture sector may hold the answer.

BY Eaint Thet Su

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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

Support independent journalism in Myanmar.

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

Opinion

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

Opinion

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

Opinion

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The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

Opinion

‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

Latest Issue

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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