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The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.

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The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

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Fresh clashes in northern Shan open old wounds and displace thousands

An escalation in fighting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Tatmadaw near the town of Mong Ko on the China border has emptied villages, while inflaming longstanding tensions over who controls the area.

BY Jaw Tu Hkawng, Jauman Naw & Emily Fishbein

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Garment workers face a fresh threat: a boycott

As military repression ramps up, some trade unions and activists are calling on brands to boycott Myanmar’s garment sector – but not everyone believes the campaign will hit its intended target.

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

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar’s parliament is no rubber stamp

Describing the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw as merely a rubber stamp is not only inaccurate. It also does a disservice to the MPs who are working hard to fulfil their duties.

BY Frontier

Features, Culture

Rape, revenge and reactionary tales

A recently released Myanmar horror film is crassly misogynist in its portrayal of sexual violence, but is part of a much broader trend in an industry dominated by male filmmakers.

BY Myint Myat Thu

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Karen ceasefire frays under Tatmadaw road-building push

Tatmadaw road-building in Kayin State has sparked clashes and mass displacement, threatening the ceasefire with the Karen National Union and dimming hopes ahead of the next Union Peace Conference.

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Myanmar's last generation of tattooed headhunters

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Playing cat and mouse on a Rakhine reporting tour

The Ministry of Information regularly arranges trips to northern Rakhine State for journalists and interesting encounters occur when their minders’ backs are turned.

BY Konrad Staehelin

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မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှအီးစီးကရက်၏အနာဂတ်မီးခိုးတိမ်တိုက်

မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတွင် အီးစီးကရက် သောက်သုံးမှုဆိုင်ရာဥပဒေမှာ မပြတ်သားသေးဘဲရှိနေရာ ကျန်းမာရေးနှင့် အားကစားဝန်ကြီးဌာနသည် သက်ဆိုင်ရာက ဥပဒေမပြဋ္ဌာန်းနိုင်မီ အီးစီးကရက်ကို ပိတ်ပင်လာနိုင်ပေသည်။

BY Ye Mon

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Myanmar’s last generation of tattooed headhunters

Ngon Pok remembers his father and grandfather returning triumphantly to his tribal village in Myanmar's far north with a human head.

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Maldives gets Amal Clooney to fight for Rohingya at UN court

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ဦးတီခွန်မြတ်အတွက် ခက်ခဲသောနေ့ရက်များ

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ခမ်းနားထည်ဝါလှသောခန်းမကြီးထဲ၌ ရွှေရောင်တဖိတ်ဖိတ်တောက်နေသော “ကျိုင်း” ကိုရှေ့တွင်ထားကာ ရွှေပိန်းချထားသောထိုင်ခုံထက်တွင် ရွှေရောင်အနားကွတ်ဖိုးဖဲကတ္တီပါဝတ်စုံဖြင့် ထိုင်ပြီးတိုင်းရေးပြည်ရာများကိုဆောင်ရွက်ရသည်မှာ နိုင်ငံရေးသမားများမက်ချင်သောအိမ်မက်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။

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Opinion

The currency crisis, and why we should brace for stagflation

News, Business, Opinion

The economics behind Min Aung Hlaing’s grand delusions

Opinion

Finding fault lines within the Tatmadaw

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Myanmar: Failed State or failed nation?

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Podcast: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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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: Military accused of using human shields in conflict areas

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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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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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