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Another proud moment of team @FrontierMM.

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Frontier is proud of its journalists for winning four Awards for Excellence, one Honourable Mention and two Finalist mentions at this year's awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA).

Details in the thread below. 🧵https://t.co/kvmTeDWnbl

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Frontier has a new podcast, What's Happening in Myanmar, available via the link or on your favourite podcast platforms each Saturday. The first episode features journalists and analysts discussing the Shan State conflict and Bangladesh-Myanmar relations.
https://t.co/ZwYfomMO0y

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DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Tens of thousands of teachers are risking their lives to make sure that children get an education despite conflict and displacement. Doh Athan hears from teachers in conflict zones and operating covertly inside Myanmar.

Listen here: https://t.co/P8RQFyTf2O

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OBITUARY | Frontier reporter Naw Betty Han remembers friend and fellow exiled Myanmar journalist Ko Htet Wai who died on October 5 in the northern Thai city of Chiang Mai.

Read here: https://t.co/17PoFN9f8d

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AFP | Fighters from the Ta’ang National Liberation Army have seized another town on a strategic highway to China, the group and a resident said, in the latest setback for the embattled junta.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/ZN9XfwSfDS

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OPINION | A medical student who left Yangon for Kayah
reflects on the last year of tumult as fighting intensified, prompting her team to treat wounded civilians, resistance fighters and even junta troops while avoiding airstrikes and disease.

Read here: https://t.co/slMFwnw3u1

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AFP | A close ally of detained Myanmar democracy leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi died of leukaemia on Monday, a National League for Democracy source told AFP, days after being released from junta custody on health grounds.

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/5wG5NCoi2V

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DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Military regime forces are building fences and evacuating nearby villages to defend Sittwe, the capital of Rakhine State. But they’re not allowing people to leave. One resident said “People are basically hostages.”

Listen here: https://t.co/550gbFUwrx

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Desperate for foreign exchange, the Myanmar regime is taking harsh steps to enforce tax and remittance rules for migrants and making it harder for them to travel.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/EeTy3frUK3

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AFP | Census takers guarded by police and soldiers took to the streets of Myanmar on Wednesday for a national survey that anti-junta groups have urged people to boycott.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/lfKQPiorPx

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OPINION | The junta says the population count will help prepare for an election but it’s more likely meant to flush out dissidents, in an exercise that is destined to flop, argues Mary Callahan.

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Read here: https://t.co/gPySWVAipH

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AFP | Myanmar’s embattled junta on Thursday invited armed groups opposed to its rule to stop fighting and start talks to bring peace, after three-and-a-half years of conflict.

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/7sHiPtlVmx

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(Reuters)

MYANMAR JUNTA INVITES ARMED OPPOSITION TO JOIN POLITICAL FOLD TO WORK FOR ETERNAL PEACE AND DEVELOPMENT - STATEMENT

MYANMAR'S NUG: JUNTA ELECTION OFFER NOT WORTH CONSIDERING

MYANMAR REBEL GROUP BPLA ON JUNTA'S ELECTION PROPOSAL: WE ARE NOT INTERESTED IN THIS OFFER

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DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Myanmar is a football-loving nation. But the sport is proving to be more than just fun for youths who have fled to the Thai town of Mae Sot. It’s giving them relief from stress and trauma, and helping them to make friends.

Listen here: https://t.co/FOtgX7fzjB

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DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Would you rather eat or connect to the outside world? That’s a choice facing some residents of northern Shan State, where conflict has tripled prices and expensive Starlink services have replaced phone and internet access.

Listen here: https://t.co/AjuZi9SXGF

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AFP | Volunteers rushed to areas inundated by floods in Myanmar on Sunday as the country’s death toll from the Typhoon Yagi deluge surged to 113 and remote areas reported increasing numbers of dead and missing.

#WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/q8qhpA6rHp

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Intense conflict in Myanmar’s Rakhine State has led to an increase in the number of severely injured civilians, even as aid organisations stop work in the region and services for the disabled decline.

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/67Vs5tbARV

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DOH ATHAN | Many Myanmar migrants in Thailand have access to social welfare and health insurance systems. But those working in the palm oil plantations of southern Thailand face high injury risks, with little health or compensation support.

Watch here: https://t.co/1qMRHd2sPt

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Myanmar journalists are allegedly suffering exploitation and abuse at exiled news outlets, but there’s debate over whether the responsibility to respond falls on donors or a media industry that is taking gradual steps to self-regulate.

Read here: https://t.co/PVs4zEkxRW

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AFP | A fifth batch of conscripts Myanmar’s junta hopes will help reverse its battlefield losses has begun training, state media reported on Tuesday.

#WhatsHappeninginMyanmar

Read here: https://t.co/LGuXXYwvo9