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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Legal changes are urgently needed to protect sex workers from violence and abuse, say activists, but political sensitivities may be delaying reform.
BY Su Myat Mon
သတင်းထောက်တစ်ဦးရဲ့အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေရာကနေ ထောင်ဒဏ် ၁၄ နှစ်အထိ ချမှတ်နိုင်တဲ့အမှုကို ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက် ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ဇနီးသည်ဖြစ်သူတို့က သူတို့ရဲ့သမီးဦးလေးဟာ မိသားစုအတွက် ကံကောင်းခြင်းတွေ ဆောင်ယူလာလိမ့်မယ့်လို့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြပါတယ်။
BY Ye Mon
For the second installment in our travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we head to Taunggyi and Heho for pastoral tranquility, orange toenails and a transcendent sunset swim.
A brief explainer about how Burmese names are decided.
BY Sharon Pun
The national anti-corruption body is investigating a Yangon court’s decision to drop charges against three men accused of killing movie star Aung Ye Htwe.
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On July 9, Frontier published an article on recent conflict in Kayin State, “Missing pieces on Myanmar’s ceasefire chessboard”.
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