By Veta Chan, Author at Frontier Myanmar

By Veta Chan

Veta Chan is an intern from Hong Kong. Before working at Frontier she interned at the South China Morning Post.

Articles by By Veta Chan (3 posts)

A passion for volunteering

A South Korean woman who resisted family opposition to become a volunteer in Myanmar says helping others makes her “feel alive”.

BY Veta Chan

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

‘I will need to be careful’: aspiring journalists brace for challenges

It’s a difficult time to be a journalist in Myanmar and students at one of the country’s leading journalism institutes are aware of the challenges ahead as they seek to build careers in the media.

BY Veta Chan

News, Features

Messages of hope and despair

Hope, peace and despair were among the themes explored when Myanmar and foreign artists gathered in Yangon for the country’s second international performance art festival.

BY Veta Chan & Sha Miao

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Volume 6, Issue 10

September 22, 2020

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Editorial, Opinion

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s election address through state media doesn’t just present Myanmar and its government, perversely, as the real victims of the Rohingya crisis, it also contradicts what she is trying to tell the rest of the world.

magazine, 2020 Election, Features

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

Buddhist nationalism and a focus on rural voters helped the USDP retain a rare stronghold in southern Mandalay Region, but cracks are emerging ahead of this year’s vote.

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