More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
More than a month after the devastating March 28 earthquake, exhausted relief workers in Mandalay and nearby areas continue to toil in difficult conditions that have left some of them traumatised. We hear from relief workers who have been deeply affected by the death and suffering around them.
BY Frontier
An early pledge by the parallel National Unity Government to replace Myanmar’s racist citizenship law raised hopes for marginalised communities, but impatience is growing as revolutionary groups trade blame for the delays.
BY Frontier
Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly airstrike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village.
BY AFP
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The main investor in a controversial Kayin State mega project is an expatriate Chinese businessman who has a built a commercial empire in Southeast Asia by fudging connections with the Chinese state.
Frontier journalist Hein Thar reflects on the challenges of covering the coronavirus amid reluctant sources and a guarded government.
BY Hein Thar
Unemployment has risen rapidly during the COVID-19 outbreak around Myanmar. What hope is there for the unemployed?
BY Frontier
A squad of gun-toting police patrol Myanmar's sacred site of Bagan under the cover of night, taking on plunderers.
BY AFP
The yemase, or 'unwashed', as the jade miners of northern Myanmar are known, risk their lives to scrape out a living.
BY AFP
The government needs to move faster to avert a financial catastrophe for millions of households in Myanmar.
BY Frontier
Frontier’s first five years have been a baptism of fire, but we’ve beat the odds and come out stronger.
BY Frontier
To mark our fifth birthday, we’re rewarding ourselves and our readers with a new website – one with a cleaner, magazine-style design and exclusive features for members.
BY Frontier
Dozens of jade miners were buried Friday in a mass grave after a landslide in northern Myanmar killed over 170, most of them migrant workers seeking their fortune in treacherous open-cast mines near the China border.
BY AFP
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