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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

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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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News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Fourth estate feels the pinch

Myanmar’s private sector newspapers need to start turning a profit but face challenges from state-run publications and digital media.

BY Jared Downing

Affairs, Interview, Business

Daw Thiri Thant Mon: 'Neither side has a long-term view'

Daw Thiri Thant Mon, 38, left Myanmar in the mid-nineties when the country’s universities were closed, to study economics at William and Mary in the US. She began working in finance at Capital One in the US and the UK before an MBA at the London Business School and joined one of the world’s leading investment banks, Morgan Stanley in London in 2006. Daw Thiri Thant Mon returned to Myanmar in 2013 as Head of Corporate Development for Yoma Strategic Holdings. Since September, she has been running a new company, Sandanila.

BY Hans Hulst

Affairs, Interview, Business

Daw Thiri Thant Mon: ‘Neither side has a long-term view’

Daw Thiri Thant Mon, 38, has returned to Myanmar after a successful international career in investment banking.

BY Hans Hulst

Bizfeed, Business

KFC opens second Yangon locations

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BY Frontier & Oliver Slow

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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.

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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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