Interview

Q&A: Explaining Myanmar’s private security law

Responsible business advocate Vicky Bowman talks to Frontier about the motives and risks of a new law issued by the junta for private security services.

BY Frontier

Interview, Features

Q&A: ‘We have to focus on the structure of organised crime’, says Thai MP Rangsiman Rome

One of the loudest voices calling for action against cyber scam centres on the Thai-Myanmar border, opposition MP Rangsiman Rome says Thailand's current crackdown is only the first step.

BY Frontier

Interview, Features

Q&A: ‘The CNF will be abolished after the revolution’, says Chin leader Sui Khar

In a wide-ranging interview, Chin National Front vice chair Dr Sui Khar discusses military strategy, Chin resistance infighting and Min Aung Hlaing’s miscalculations.

BY Frontier

Photo Essays, Interview, Features

In the thick of it: A photojournalist in Myanmar’s southern front

Photojournalist Mar Naw reflects on his travels earlier this year through southern Myanmar, where he documented a largely overlooked theatre of war.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

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Photo Essays, Interview

Aung La Nsang: 'Winning gives you confidence, but losing gives you character'

After a thrashing at the hands of Vitaly Bigdash in January, Myanmar’s MMA hero has a shot at redemption in what may be his last chance to become middleweight champion.

BY RJ Vogt

Affairs, Interview, Business, Features

Puma Energy chief: ‘Competition will help to improve standards and pricing’

Puma Energy country manager David Holden on the domestic petroleum products market.

BY Thomas Kean

Affairs, Interview, Business

Puma Energy chief: 'Competition will help to improve standards and pricing'

One of your businesses, Puma Energy Asia Sun, recently became the first foreign investor to get permission from the Myanmar Investment Commission to import, distribute and sell fuel, breaking a monopoly held by local companies. As a policy decision from the government, how significant was that?

BY Thomas Kean

Affairs, Interview, Features

ICRC chief: ‘Granting access is in the interests of the government and armed forces’

Frontier talks humanitarian access with Peter Maurer, president of the International Committee of the Red Cross.

BY Jared Downing

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

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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