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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Affairs, Interview

Jeroen de Bakker, photographer

Dutch photographer Jeroen de Bakker spent nearly 14 months in transitional Myanmar documenting the lives of people with diverse backgrounds. The ten photo essays will appear in Frontier and feature in a book due to be published in early November. Mr de Bakker discussed the project with Frontier.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Interview, Business

Surbana CEO Wong Heang Fine: ‘Myanmar has less hidden baggage’

Wong Heang Fine, the chief executive of Surbana Jurong, on the Singaporean company’s role in Myanmar’s urban and industrial renaissance.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Affairs, Interview, Features

Polymath journalist makes headlines in Kalemyo

There’s no shortage of choice in Yangon’s journal and newspaper market. Vendors’ stands busy with colourful displays of publications are everywhere in the commercial capital, but news-hungry readers in Yangon are unlikely to be encouraged to buy a publication at the urging of its owner.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Interview, Business

Surbana CEO Wong Heang Fine: 'Myanmar has less hidden baggage'

Singapore’s transition from backwater to global city has made it the envy of the developing world and Surbana Jurong Pte Ltd. has been a prominent ambassador of the city-state’s model abroad. The company has roots in Singapore’s Housing Development Board, which developed the city-state’s enviable public housing program, and JTC Corporation, which helped to turn the country into an industrial powerhouse.

BY Alex Bookbinder

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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