Business

South for the winter: Myanmar’s cyber scam industry migrates

A supposed crackdown on cyber scam operations in Myawaddy Township has only masked their relocation, with the Kayin BGF and DKBA helping Chinese criminal syndicates.

BY Frontier

Business

‘No future here’: Youth exodus leads to labour shortage

The Myanmar military’s conscription law has sparked a mass exodus of young people, further buffeting an already struggling economy and incentivising child labour to fill the gaps.

BY Frontier

Business, Features

India shipped over $1 million of navy-grade fuel to Myanmar since coup

An Indian state-owned company has sent Myanmar large amounts of fuel suitable for warships since the military seized power in 2021, but the actual recipient is shrouded in secrecy.

BY Frontier

News, Business, Features

Border blues: Myanmar migrants face barriers to work in China

Myanmar nationals are flocking to the Chinese border – risking scams, exploitation and arrest in search of jobs – but limited border crossings and fierce competition mean many leave empty-handed and deeper in poverty.

BY Frontier

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Interview, Business

John Sartain: 'There is an incredible variety of opportunities now on offer'

Singapore-based Hospitality Resource Solutions Pte Ltd specialises in helping Myanmar living in the city-state to return home and find work. HRS managing director John Sartain, a former general manager of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate, told Frontier there’s been strong demand for the job-placement service since it was launched in early 2013.

BY Oliver Slow

Interview, Business

Anna Khin Khin Kyawt: 'The heart is out of the business'

After the former military government embraced market reforms in the early 1990s, SAIL Advertising was the first Myanmar marketing company to cater to international clients. Times have changed. In transitional Myanmar, advertising agencies are ghting for business. Frontier asked SAIL founder Dr Anna Khin Khin Kyawt, who’s also president of the Myanmar Marketing Services Association, about the changing advertising market and the challenges ahead.

BY Hans Hulst

Bizfeed, Business

Brewery stake valued at twice UMEHL’s offer, says Singapore’s F&N

Singapore drinks and property conglomerate Fraser and Neave says an assessment has valued its stake in Myanmar Brewery at US$560 million.

BY Frontier

Interview, Business

John Sartain: ‘There is an incredible variety of opportunities now on offer’

Frontier speaks to John Sartain, managing director of Hospitality Resource Solutions.

BY Oliver Slow

Latest Issue

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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