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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Interview, Business

Brewery boss Lester Tan: ‘Our goal is always to go as local as we can’

Lester Tan, the managing director of the joint venture overseeing Heineken's entry into Myanmar, on his company’s plans to challenge the dominance of Myanmar Beer.

BY Oliver Slow

Interview, Business

Brewery boss Lester Tan: 'Our goal is always to go as local as we can'

Dutch brewer Heineken has entered Myanmar’s increasingly competitive beer market, opening a US$60 million brewery in a joint venture with a domestic partner at Hmawbi, about 30 miles north of Yangon. Lester Tan, the managing director of the APB ABC joint venture, spoke to Frontier about the company’s plans for Myanmar and its strategy for challenging Myanmar Beer’s dominant share of the market.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Interview, Election 2015

NLD MP Daw Sandar Min: ‘We do not want to see marriage between Bengali people and Myanmar people’

Parliament has so far approved two of the four bills known as the protection of race and religion laws. The Health Care for Population Control Bill was signed into law by President U Thein Sein after receiving approval in May. Earlier this month approved the Inter-faith Marriage Bill and it was submitted to the President to be enacted.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs, Interview, Election 2015

The UEC’s challenge: Delivering a clean election

The election commission chairman vows a free and fair vote but inaccurate election rolls might disrupt the democratic process.

BY Larry Jagan

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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