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Q&A: NUG’s Lashi La says military leaders ‘don’t want peace’

Nearly two years since its formation, the National Unity Government’s acting president Duwa Lashi La speaks to Frontier about military strategy, the parallel government’s relations with China and ethnic armed groups, its achievements so far and its plans for the future.

BY Frontier

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Q&A: Sean Turnell on being framed as Suu Kyi’s ‘puppet master’

The freed Australian economic advisor talks to Frontier about the military regime that put him behind bars and the views of fellow prisoner Aung San Suu Kyi.

BY Frontier

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.

BY Frontier

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‘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

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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

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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

Canadian Ambassador: ‘Myanmar is an exciting place to be a young person’

Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Myanmar Mark McDowell on his decision to leave the foreign service and why young people should ‘go with their gut’.

BY Rita Nguyen

Interview, Business

Myanma Awba CEO: 'Crop prices are the major issue’

You started Myanma Awba two decades ago, aged just 22, but you didn’t come from an agriculture background. Where did the inspiration come from?

BY Thomas Kean

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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