An entertainer with a gift for oration is keeping junta forces on their toes in Sagaing Region, while building a united front of anti-coup armed groups.
BY Frontier
An entertainer with a gift for oration is keeping junta forces on their toes in Sagaing Region, while building a united front of anti-coup armed groups.
BY Frontier
If the National Unity Government wants to be taken seriously on the international stage, it needs to put forward a coherent, united, powerful vision for Myanmar’s future.
BY Frontier
Thailand has just reopened its border to Myanmar workers, but a cumbersome application process and deepening poverty continues to push them down illegal paths.
BY Frontier
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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
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
Myanmar's junta on Thursday threatened to downgrade diplomatic ties with Australia after it said Canberra would not replace its recently-departed ambassador to the military-run country.
BY AFP
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
Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.
BY Frontier
The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.
BY Frontier
Despite the relative lack of armed conflict in Rakhine State in recent months, tens of thousands of internally displaced people still languish in camps where food shortages are becoming more common.
BY Frontier
Another jump in fuel prices since Russia invaded Ukraine has brought extra suffering for the people of Myanmar as they struggle with economic fallout from the coup and the COVID-19 pandemic.
BY Frontier
An international terrorism monitor missed the mark when it labeled a resistance attack on soldiers as terrorism, and may only serve to embolden the real terrorists in Myanmar: the military.
BY Frontier
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