Interview

Economic analyst U Thet Zaw talks to Frontier about trade restrictions imposed last month by the military regime, and how they are leading to shortages and steep increases in the price of consumer goods.

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Since the NLD government took office, Japan has promised billions in aid and investment, much of which will be administered through its development aid arm, the Japan International Cooperation Agency. The agency’s chief representative in Myanmar, Keiichiro Nakazawa, spoke to Frontier’s Thomas Kean about the government’s donor coordination efforts, the next phase of the Thilawa Special Economic Zone and plans for a new port and airport in southern Yangon.

ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ချတ်ထရီယမ် ဟိုတယ်မှာ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၂ ရက်မှာ ကျင်းပတဲ့ Music for Myanmar ရန်ပုံငွေပွဲကို Link for Aid ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့က စီစဉ်ကျင်းပတာဖြစ်ပြီး ယင်းပရဟိတအဖွဲ့ တည်ထောင်သူ ခရီးသွားစာရေးဆရာမ မစ္စ ပါမီလာ မက်ကုတ် ဖရန်ဆက်စ်ကွန် Pamela

ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ ချတ်ထရီယမ် ဟိုတယ်မှာ နိုဝင်ဘာလ ၂၂ ရက်မှာ ကျင်းပတဲ့ Music for Myanmar ရန်ပုံငွေပွဲကို Link for Aid ပရဟိတအဖွဲ့က စီစဉ်ကျင်းပတာဖြစ်ပြီး ယင်းပရဟိတအဖွဲ့ တည်ထောင်သူ ခရီးသွားစာရေးဆရာမ မစ္စ ပါမီလာ မက်ကုတ် ဖရန်ဆက်စ်ကွန် Pamela

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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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