VIEW ALL ISSUES

Volume 4, Issue 8

A new minister for Planning and Finance has raised hopes for better economic management after two years of lacklustre leadership.

BY Thomas Kean & Hein Ko Soe

Editorial, Opinion

A turning point?

It’s been more than nine months since Rakhine State plunged into an even darker chapter, when attacks by the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army prompted a brutal army crackdown that has seen 700,000 people – overwhelmingly Muslims who identify as Rohingya – flee over the border into Bangladesh.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The crime reporters tainted by extortion

Residents in some remote areas of Myanmar have come to associate journalism with extortion, and unscrupulous crime reporters are to blame.

BY Htun Khaing

Bizfeed, Business, Features

Tycoon seeks Shwe Mann’s help over halted project

Zaykabar chairman U Khin Shwe has written to his powerful relative by marriage, who is close to the state counsellor and heads a high-level commission, to appeal the postponement of work on a big mixed-use project in Yangon.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

More than just pollution concerns at Htein Bin dump

Worries for residents near the landfill, which was the scene of a huge, weeks-long fire in April and May, include pollution and compensation for their land.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

Bizfeed, Business, Features

A new deal for oil and gas

With an offshore oil and gas tender on the horizon, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy says it is reviewing the fiscal terms in its production sharing contracts to make the country more internationally competitive.

BY Thomas Kean

Bizfeed, Business, Features

Yangon residents cry foul over factories next door

Factories in residential areas that cause air pollution and foul odours are making life a misery for some city and outer urban residents in Yangon Region.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Photo Essays, News, Affairs, Features

Middle Myanmar’s vanishing toddy palms

Toddy palms are in sharp decline, a trend that’s affecting production of the confectionary known as jaggery as well as the illegal tipple popular in rural areas.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Business, Opinion

Movable asset lending is the future

A secured transactions reform will help develop Myanmar’s credit market, and subsequently drive the nation’s economy by creating jobs and giving SMEs increased access to finance.

BY Khin Thida Maw

Sithu Aung Myint, Business, Opinion

$82m lawsuit takes shine from nation’s biggest gold miner

A government lawsuit to recover $82 million has taken the shine out of a gold mining company that was able to secure favourable contracts with the previous administration.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News Feed, News, Features

A monastery closed, a village divided

Five residents of a Rakhine State village have served time in jail amid a bitter dispute over an ancient monastery that has split the community.

BY Su Myat Mon

News, Affairs, Features

The Myanmar calendar

An average year in Myanmar typically incorporates a high number of holidays, and many of them are linked to the country’s strong relationship with religion.

BY Jared Downing & Kyaw Lin Htoon

Travel, Features, Culture

Wild waters: Loikaw

For the first installment in our new travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we head to the Kayah State capital for waterfalls, islands – and fried frogs.

BY Dominic Horner

Features, Culture

Solitude in the city: A new alleyway renovation project

A new alleyway renovation project in downtown Yangon is the latest project from a social enterprise aiming to promote citizen-led heritage conservation and urban regeneration in Myanmar.

BY Oliver Slow