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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A centre in the Thai border town of Mae Sot is providing support and care for survivors of domestic violence, many of them refugees from Myanmar.
BY Frontier
Residents of an Ayeyarwady Region township are being forced to choose between joining the military or paying an onerous fine, with the large cash payments seemingly being used to lure more young people into joining up.
BY Frontier
As in Yangon, junta forces in Mandalay have conducted a “squatter clearance plan”, leaving thousands of insecure residents in the city homeless, and with no place to go.
BY Frontier
Civilians and community workers in Rakhine State are living in dread as the Arakan Army and military junta trade arrests, and the threat of war looms large.
BY Frontier
When the military attacks, many disabled people are unable to flee to safety. Those that manage to make it out alive find themselves struggling to get the level of care and support they need in rudimentary IDP camps.
BY Frontier
Riders for online food delivery service Foodpanda have gone on strike, accusing the German-owned company of slashing rates while putting workers in danger as they navigate Myanmar’s increasingly dangerous cities.
BY Frontier
Today marks one year since the Myanmar military regime detained Frontier columnist Sithu Aung Myint. There is absolutely no basis to the charges against him. He and dozens of other journalists are being persecuted simply for doing their job, and should be freed immediately.
BY Frontier
So-called squatter families, or informal residents, in Yangon have long been marginalised from society. Since the coup, however, their difficulties have increased, with many forcibly removed from their homes, leaving them unable to work or afford to send their children to school.
BY Frontier
The oil industry in Magway Region has taken a beating from arson attacks on small wells by junta forces determined to eliminate a source of revenue for the resistance.
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