Interview

Q&A: ‘This is the first time we’ve found a link’

Rob Hunter-Perkins, of Conflict Armament Research, talks to Frontier about the discovery of a motor sourced from a Myanmar company in an Iranian drone recovered near the Iraq-Syria border in 2023.

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Q&A: ‘You don’t know what’s going to come next’

Thai academic Dr Lalita Hanwong, who specialises in Myanmar affairs, talks to Frontier about how the new governments in Thailand and Myanmar might approach their diplomatic relations.

BY Frontier

Q&A: ‘Policies will have to change’

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.

BY Frontier

Q&A: ‘Civilians should never be targeted’

Mon Unity Party spokesperson Nai Than Shwe talks to Frontier about strategic and security challenges the party is facing in preparing for the upcoming election organised by the regime.

BY Frontier

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Tin Maung Thann, Myanmar Peace Center advisor

Let’s start with the nationwide ceasefire, that has been signed two months ago. Some say 8 signatories out of 16 participating ethnic armed organizations in the peace talks is not a resounding success.

BY Hans Hulst

Pizza Hut chief: 'We believe that the time is right'

What opportunities do you see in the Myanmar market?

BY Oliver Slow

Sai Ohn Myint on the new YSX: ‘Better than borrowing money from a bank’

The Great Hor Kham Public Company is one of first companies to be listed on the Yangon Stock Exchange, which opened on December 9. The company, based at Muse in Shan State, was established on December 12, 2012, and its nine-member board of directors are all ethnic Shan who have been friends since university, said the company’s managing director, Sai Ohn Myint. Great Hor Kham Public Company has 500 shareholders. Frontier asked Sai Ohn Myint about his company’s activities and the decision to list on the stock market.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

VDB Loi’s Edwin Vanderbruggen: ‘This is Myanmar, they expect a certain degree of risk’

VDB Loi partner Edwin Vanderbruggen on the challenges of privatisation in Myanmar.

BY Jared Downing

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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.

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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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