Volume 4, Issue 13

August 16, 2018

Volume 4, Issue 13

Bagan and the World Heritage list countdown

After years of challenges and controversy, a UNESCO committee will decide next year whether to grant World Heritage listing to Bagan – but hotel development in the archaeological zone remains a thorny and unresolved issue.

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News

30 years on, Myanmar remembers storied pro-democracy uprising

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BY AFP

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Forsaken at the ‘western gate’

A group of Buddhists who moved to northern Rakhine State have been forced off the land where they had hoped to build new lives.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, News, Features

The anguish of a loving husband and father

Frontier joins Ma Pan Ei Mon as she visits her husband, Reuters journalist Ko Wa Lone, in Insein Prison six days before she is due to give birth to their first child.

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

A revolution, 30 years on

As the country marks the 30th anniversary of one of its most significant political moments, student leaders question how far the country has really come.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The activist women who suffered for their convictions

Women who were jailed for supporting the struggle for democratic change in Myanmar deserve more recognition for what they endured.

BY Su Myat Mon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Yangon University’s campus cash cows

Yangon University has some nice little earners, including a lucrative tender for a monopoly of all graduation photos, but evidence of the income is hard to find.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Pioneering Maubin industrial zone moves forward

A Union committee’s decision removes a key obstacle to plans for a privately owned and managed industrial park on farmland in Ayeyarwady Region that has seen strong interest from Chinese investors.

BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, Photo Essays, Affairs, News, Features

Conflict, conscription and a cover-up: the killing of six TNLA medics

In a remote, mountainous area of northern Shan State, six women are dead. Are they the latest victims of Tatmadaw impunity in the country’s long-running civil conflicts?

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon & Victoria Milko

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Can the state counsellor help to save the tourism industry?

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi has proposed a series of suggestions for boosting the travel industry, but implementing many of them will be a challenge.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Affairs, Features, Culture

Mandalay’s masterpiece in the art of woodwork

One of Myanmar’s finest teak monasteries is being painstakingly restored to its resplendent glory with funding assistance from the United States.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Features, Culture

Traditional Myanmar street games explained

In the first of a two-part series, we teach you how to play three traditional Myanmar street games.

BY Jared Downing

News, Affairs, Features, Culture

Rise of the digital prize fighter

As Myanmar holds its biggest videogame tournament yet, the competitive e-sports scene is struggling to go professional.

BY Jared Downing

Travel, Features, Culture

A taste of Myitkyina

The Kachin State capital boasts a spectacular array of eateries offering authentic Kachin fare and dishes from neighbouring Shan State. The three below are all notable for being operated by successful, confident women restaurateurs.

BY Emily Fishbein