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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If a commitment to realise the will of the electorate was more important than haggling over a title, Myanmar would not be sitting on a constitutional crisis.
BY Khin Zaw Win
Achieving a smooth transition will require both the NLD and the Tatmadaw to act strictly according to the provisions of the controversial 2008 Constitution.
American Robert Carmack and Australian Morrison Polkinghorne, co-authors of The Burma Cookbook, named the world’s Best Asian Cookbook of 2015 at the Best in the World Gourmand awards last year, first visited Yangon in 2000 after winning several nights at The Strand Hotel at a charity auction.
Budget allocations for restoration work have risen dramatically at the nation’s second most important archeological after Bagan, but there’s little to show for it.
An ambitious plan has been drafted to restore the Waziya cinema, the grandest of the seven movie houses that once lined Yangon’s Bogyoke Aung San Road.
Ka Lone Htar villagers have sought to enlist the help of guardian spirits in their fight against a dam project that would uproot more than 1,000 people.
It beggars belief that the RCSS could have relocated hundreds of troops across Shan State without the knowledge and support of the military.
Andy Hall of the Migrant Worker Rights Network speaks with Frontier about the criminal charges levelled against him in Thailand and the Koh Tao murder case.
The artists behind Myanmar’s small and shadowy graffiti scene are motivated more by the fundamentals of visual theory than they are by politics.
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