Volume 4, Issue 25

January 30, 2019

Volume 4, Issue 25

News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Affairs, Business, Features

‘Our land is collapsing around us’: Ayeyarwady at risk from rampant sand mining

Irresponsible sand mining in the Ayeyarwady River is destroying the livelihoods of farmers and fishers and placing environmental stress on the nation’s rice bowl.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Editorial, Opinion

The great sand heist

Sand: it’s cheap, plentiful and essential for many construction projects. We take it for granted – if we even notice it at all.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs

Myanmar's LGBT community: between old laws and enduring stigma

Myanmar’s LGBT community is confronting out-dated laws that criminalise their personal lives and hostile attitudes fed by popular culture.

BY Win Zar Ni Aung

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Civics education in primary schools is a lesson in discrimination

An open letter to President U Win Myint has focused attention on discriminatory material in the government’s civics education curriculum for primary schools.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Rogue yogi: a fortune-teller faces trial for fraud

A woman who affected religious piety and claimed to have friends in high places has faced court accused of involvement in a multi-billion-kyat investment scam.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News

In boost for Myitsone, China advising govt on new hydropower policy

Sources have told Frontier that the Chinese government is advising the Ministry of Electricity and Energy on a white paper for hydropower policy at the same time as pressuring Myanmar to revive the long-stalled Myitsone dam.

BY Thomas Kean

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

The wait’s nearly over for foreign insurers

After years of waiting, foreign insurers have been given the go-ahead to enter the domestic market, to the chagrin of their Myanmar competitors.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Rakhine nationalism and the rise of the Arakan Army

Historic grievances and Bamar chauvinism are among the factors that have fuelled Rakhine nationalism and supported the emergence of the Arakan Army.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

Breaking the deadlock in Rakhine

Dialogue between the Rakhine and Rohingya communities is essential to achieve a sustainable solution to an increasingly complex crisis.

BY Myo Sann Aung

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Ko Ni murder trial reaches climax

A Yangon court will soon deliver judgment against four men on trial over the killing of NLD legal adviser U Ko Ni, while the alleged mastermind remains at large.

BY Ye Mon