Volume 4, Issue 22

December 20, 2018

Volume 4, Issue 22

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features, Culture

Finding lost lives

Yangon’s tiny Jewish community recently hosted a special group of foreign visitors hoping to learn more about their family histories.

BY Florian Guckelsberger

Editorial

Few people actively use Twitter in Myanmar. Fewer had heard of Mr Jack Dorsey, one of the Silicon Valley social media company’s founders and its CEO – that is, until a December 8 Twitter thread by the American tech billionaire about his recent birthday trip to Myanmar.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News, Affairs, Features

Making schools safe havens for communities

New school construction guidelines are aimed at making education more inclusive and accessible while also ensuring that schools can serve their communities as safe and secure shelters during natural disasters.

BY Eva Hirschi

News Feed, News

Activists demand the release of Reuters journalists after a year behind bars

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BY Ye Mon

Affairs, Business, Features

Garments sector poised to boom in Pathein

Chinese investors have big plans for garment production at several industrial parks near the river port city of Pathein in western Ayeyarwady Region.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn & Su Myat Mon

Bizfeed, Business

‘The project bank will enhance transparency and competitiveness’: U Set Aung

What is the project bank and why is it being developed?

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features, Culture

Celebrating the manau, and a Thai king’s gift

In northern Thailand, a Kachin village dances the sacred manau to celebrate the gift of land granted to them by a Thai king.

BY Victoria Milko

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The NLD government: a work in progress

More than halfway through its term in office, the NLD has disappointed on peace and the economy but deserves praise for cracking down on corruption.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

Letter: Law articles should only be written by those who know the law

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

Letter: Questions can be raised without causing offence

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Travel, News, Affairs, Features

‘Only thanks to my AIDS this project exists’

When Eric Trutwein discovered two decades ago that he was HIV positive, he returned to his Magway Region hometown to die. But his health improved, and he has built a new life through a guesthouse and a school for orphans.

BY Eva Hirschi

Affairs, Culture

From cursed treasure to British warplanes: the buried mysteries of Myanmar

From British Spitfire fighter planes to cursed treasure, Frontier introduces the buried mysteries of Yangon and beyond.

BY Jared Downing

News, Affairs, Features

A new martial art grips Myanmar

Mixing competition with social camaraderie, Brazilian jiu jitsu is winning a dedicated following amongst aspiring grapplers from Yangon to Lashio.

BY Tom Sanders

News, Features

Messages of hope and despair

Hope, peace and despair were among the themes explored when Myanmar and foreign artists gathered in Yangon for the country’s second international performance art festival.

BY Veta Chan & Sha Miao