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.
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Around 600,000 people, or 10 percent of Yangon's population, are believed to be squatting in Myanmar's commercial capital. Many now face eviction.
BY Noe Noe Aung
Diminishing returns are making the hard lives of artisan miners even harder in some areas of central Myanmar, where traditional methods of mining for oil have existed for centuries.
KFC launches its first outlet in Myanmar and faces supply chain challenges.
BY Hans Hulst
Around 600,000 people, or 10 percent of Yangon's population, are believed to be squatting in Myanmar's commercial capital. Many now face eviction.
BY Noe Noe Aung
London-based market research company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), opened its Yangon office in 2013. The general manager of TNS Myanmar, Jason Copland, spoke to Frontier about the company’s work in tracking changes in consumer behaviour and how companies are adapting to those changes.
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U Hkyet Hting Nan is an Amyotha Hluttaw MP and chairman of the Unity and Democracy Party of Kachin State. He spoke to Frontier about his hopes for autonomy in Kachin State and for a federal Myanmar.
BY Frontier
Myanmar has denounced a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution that called on the government to grant full citizenship to Rohingya Muslims in Rakhine State.
BY Frontier
A fishermen’s organisation in southern Thailand wants Thai trawlers to be allowed to operate in Myanmar waters.
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