Interview

‘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

News Feed, News, Affairs, Interview, Features

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 Clare Hammond

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Affairs, Interview

UN aid chief: 'It's absolutely vital that we maintain the supply lines'

Why are you visiting Myanmar?

BY Oliver Slow

Interview, Features

Trials and tribulations touring socialist Burma

U Sonny Aung Khin, owner of traditional Myanmar restaurant Padonmar in Dagon Township, discusses his five decades in the tourism industry, including 16 years in Bangkok sending curious foreign visitors to socialist-era Burma.

BY Thomas Kean

Interview, Business

Aung Naing Oo: ‘International investors are impressed by the new law’

Myanmar Investment Commission secretary U Aung Naing Oo speaks to Frontier about the new Investment Law and the outlook for foreign investors.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Interview, Business

Aung Naing Oo: 'International investors are impressed by the new law'

Myanmar Investment Commission secretary U Aung Naing Oo speaks to Frontier about the new Investment Law and the outlook for foreign investors.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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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