Interview

‘Min Aung Hlaing has taken advantage of the system’: Charles Santiago

Charles Santiago, Malaysian MP and chairman of the ASEAN Parliamentarians for Human Rights, spoke to Frontier last month in Kuala Lumpur. He called for ASEAN to rethink its approach to the crisis in Myanmar, including by making changes to the special envoy position and openly engaging with the National Unity Government.

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Interview

‘I’m proud of what he did’: Phyo Zayar Thaw’s wife speaks out

Myanmar's first executions in decades have stunned the nation, plunging it into a state of rage and mourning. Frontier spoke to Phyo Zayar Thaw’s wife Thazin Nyunt Aung about his death, his life and what this means for the revolution.

BY Frontier

Interview

‘I stand by our decision’: UK envoy forced out of Myanmar

As he leaves his post, head of the British embassy Mr Pete Vowles spoke to Frontier about the UK's support for the democracy movement, its hope for a "political solution" to the crisis and why the military miscalculated.

BY Frontier

News, Interview, Features

Tales from abroad: the anguish of those who’ve left Myanmar behind

Amid turmoil and uncertainty, some Myanmar youth have gone overseas or are choosing to remain abroad despite facing financial challenges and survivor’s guilt.

BY Emily Fishbein

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Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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‘People in Myanmar have been totally brainwashed’: KNU official welcomes new solidarity

The Karen National Union’s foreign affairs chief says only since the Tatmadaw’s brutal crackdowns on protesters are the majority of people changing their views about armed groups, and seeing them as partners and allies instead of “rebels”.

BY Frontier

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

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Waking peace talks from ‘hibernation’: an interview with Dr Min Zaw Oo

Frontier speaks with Dr Min Zaw Oo, founder of the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security, about what it would take to revive deadlocked peace negotiations.

BY Ben Dunant

Interview

“အဂတိလိုက်စားမှု တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးအတွက် စနစ်တကျ ပြင်ဆင်နေပါတယ်” ဦးအောင်ကြည်၊…

ကလဲရ် ဟမ်မွန် နှင့် ဝင်းဇာနည်အောင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ဖြစ်ပွားနေတဲ့ အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုတွေကို တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးအတွက် အဂတိလိုက်စားမှု တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးကော်မရှင်အနေနဲ့ ဘယ်လိုကြိုးပမ်းနေတယ်ဆိုတာကို ကော်မရှင်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဦးအောင်ကြည်က Frontier ကို ဇွန် ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ သမ္မတဦးဝင်းမြင့်က သူ သမ္မတဖြစ်ပြီး ချက်ချင်းဆိုသလိုပဲ အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုတိုက်ဖျက်ရေးကော်မရှင်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒီက သူက ဘာတွေ.

BY Andrew Nachemson

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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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