Photo Essays

Inside the ‘liberated’ villages of Myanmar’s deep south

Pictures by photojournalist Mar Naw capture life in resistance-controlled areas of Tanintharyi Region, where anti-junta groups have established parallel health and education systems but also allowed harmful mining operations to continue.

BY Frontier

Photo Essays

In photos: Praying for the dead in Kayah State

In Demoso Township, where many have been killed in the military's campaign of violence, an annual prayer ceremony for the dead has taken on a new revolutionary spirit.

BY Frontier

Photo Essays, Features

Myanmar’s Spring Revolution: a year in photos

Images from Frontier's photographers capture the brutality of the military regime and the defiance of the people during a year marked by protests, bloodshed and revolution.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, Photo Essays, News, Affairs, Features

Plastic and the pandemic

A sharp increase in household plastic waste amid COVID-19 has exacerbated the threat posed by Yangon’s near-capacity landfills and poor waste management systems.

BY Hein Thar

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Photo Essays, Affairs, Features

A bike ride escape from Yangon

A new cycling tour that follows that travelled by one of Myanmar’s best-known kings in the 16th century aims to create more jobs in the tourism industry, and showcase the country’s greatest asset: its people.

BY Thomas Kean

Photo Essays, Affairs, Features

There aren’t that many places that are as symbolic as the Secretariat’

In conversation with Vinod Daniel, an adviser on the cultural side of the project to restore Yangon's iconic Secretariat building.

BY Oliver Slow

Photo Essays, Affairs

'There aren't that many places that are as symbolic as the Secretariat'

The Secretariat, in the heart of Yangon’s downtown, is one of the country’s most historically important buildings. It has played a crucial role in the administration of the country since its completion in 1905, but is most significant as the location where independence hero Bogyoke Aung San, seven members of his cabinet and a bodyguard were assassinated on July 19, 1947. Their deaths are commemorated each year on Martyrs’ Day.

BY Oliver Slow

Photo Essays, Features, Culture

On the right track

Although ten-pin bowling is yet to catch on in the mainstream in Myanmar, a small, scrappy community of local and expat bowlers are helping to keep the sport alive.

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.

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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