Business

Looting licences: Junta transfers valuable alcohol permits from Sagaing to Yangon

Hungry for cash and unable to collect tax in resistance strongholds in Sagaing, the regime has taken the unusual step of revoking sought-after liquor licences in the region and transferring them to compliant businesses in Yangon.

BY Frontier

News, Business

Lights out: Myanmar’s junta dreams of electric cars

Despite struggling to keep the lights on, the military regime has unveiled plans to electrify the nation’s transport system, with many of the initial import permits going to companies close to the generals.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, News, Business, Features

China and Myanmar resume work on Muse-Kyaukphyu railway

A Chinese state-owned company and the military regime are quietly pushing forward with a railway line that would run through active conflict zones, after lengthy delays due to Myanmar’s wariness, COVID-19 and then the coup.

BY Frontier

Business

Junta forced to wait on COVID-19 loans

An economic downturn exacerbated by the regime’s own disastrous policies is hampering efforts to recuperate loans given to businesses by the ousted civilian government.

BY Frontier

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Interview, Business

Shwe Kokko is ‘not part of BRI’ says developer Yatai

In Frontier’s first interview with Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, the company said it wanted to be a model for Chinese investors.

BY Frontier

Business

Cyberspace swindlers prey on the credulous

Scammers are using Facebook to gather personal information from gullible users and defraud them through popular mobile money services.

BY Ye Mon

Travel, News, Business, Features

The Kokang casino dream

Local politicians in a border region known for its frequent outbreaks of violence hope to transform it into the “next Macau”.

BY Nanda

Business, Features

Stockpiling and loans: Myanmar’s rice sector resilient to COVID-19

COVID-19 hasn't had a major impact on monsoon paddy planting, despite some farmers facing financial difficulties.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

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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.

News Feed, News

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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