The March 28 earthquake rattled Myanmar’s fledgling insurance industry, with companies that offered quake coverage now obligated to pay out massive amounts of compensation in.
BY Frontier
The March 28 earthquake rattled Myanmar’s fledgling insurance industry, with companies that offered quake coverage now obligated to pay out massive amounts of compensation in.
BY Frontier
Mastering control of the rising and falling rattan chinlone ball teaches patience, says a veteran of the traditional Myanmar sport – a quality dearly needed in the long-suffering nation.
BY AFP
The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more effectively – to the regime’s benefit.
BY Frontier
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A lack of job opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers in order to cross back into Thailand illegally.
BY Lawi Weng
Myanmar needs to do much more to ensure responsible conduct by investors, and a National Action Plan could point the way forward.
BY Frontier
Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.
BY Hein Thar
Frustrated by a lack of reform, 11 activists are competing as independents in the election on behalf of workers and farmers.
BY Frontier
Activists have faced a barrage of criticism on social media over protests in support of peace and other causes.
Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.
BY Oliver Slow
In Frontier’s first interview with Myanmar Yatai International Holding Group, the company said it wanted to be a model for Chinese investors.
BY Frontier
A group of Muslim candidates hopes to defy the community’s marginalisation by winning seats in the November election.
This week we profile a garment sector worker who has lost her job, but hasn’t stopped dreaming of a better life.
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