Volume 4, Issue 9

June 21, 2018

Volume 4, Issue 9

Inside Insein

Ill-treatment is rife, the food is bad and hygiene is sub-standard in the infamous Yangon prison that has long been the butt of grim word-play humour about “going insane”.

BY Oliver Slow

Editorial, Opinion

An ugly legacy

Myanmar under military rule was synonymous with political prisoners.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News, Affairs, Features

Rakhine youth want a say in state’s future

The Arakan Youth Conference wants the young generation to have a 30 percent quota in the Rakhine Hluttaw and a bigger say in charting the state’s future.

BY Su Myat Mon

News, Affairs, Features

The ugly return of vigilante violence

Plainclothes thugs helped police disperse peaceful demonstrators in 2015 and they made their presence felt again last month when they assaulted protesters in Yangon.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Bizfeed, Business, Features

Anti-MLM activist on 66(d) charge appears in court

A man who campaigns against multi-level marketing has appeared in a Yangon court after being accused of criminal defamation over social media posts about the Successmore company’s executives and products.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Bizfeed, Business

Credentials of new Myanmar Investment Commission chair in question

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BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Affairs, Business, Features

Disputes built on gold

The government plans to take action against mining companies regarding outstanding payments in the precious metal, but at least one company is putting up a fight.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

A new danger for refugees in Bangladesh camps

Almost 10 months after the crisis began, refugees in the camps in southern Bangladesh are facing a new and dangerous threat – the incoming monsoon rains.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Bizfeed, Business

Japan’s Kirin under fire for military donation during Rakhine violence

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BY Andrew Nachemson

Opinion

Can the government break the Nay Pyi Taw Consensus?

Under military rule, Myanmar developed a system that was a fusion of cronyism and militarism, and as a result the economy has come to be dominated by corruption and rent seeking.

BY Naing Ko Ko

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Rakhine: NLD govt between a rock and hard place

The NLD government is caught between the Tatmadaw and the international community over a solution to the Rakhine crisis and pleasing both sides will be difficult.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News, Affairs, Features

Myanmar education: explained

Most of the nation’s children are educated at government schools, which are facing some significant challenges over a range of issues.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

News, Affairs, Features, Culture

Tatmadaw “propaganda” movie sparks box office debate

The director of a new film about the Myanmar Army said he aims to document the life of soldiers, but critics say it is a piece of propaganda that seeks to glorify the Tatmadaw and could affect the peace process.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Backpage, Opinion

Police acting badly

In late March, I was part of a contingent of journalists who travelled to Chin State, to cover a community-based tourism project that was being launched at Taisun village, Falam Township.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News

Episode 37: An after class culture

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

News Feed, News

Episode 36: Nothing is impossible

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Su Myat Mon

News, Affairs, Features

For some, a distance education means learning far from home

Pa-O children in southern Shan State have to travel far from the highlands they call home if they want a better education.

BY Win Zar Ni Aung

News, Affairs, Features

Empowering through sexual health knowledge

At a training centre for women in Yangon, adolescent girls who have experienced trafficking, abuse and sex work, or have been detained for juvenile offences, learn to understand their bodies and protect themselves from HIV and other sexually transmitted infections.

BY Marysol Balane

News, Affairs, Features

Caring for the most vulnerable

As part of the NLD government’s plans to bring Universal Health Coverage to Myanmar by 2030, the Sun Quality Health Network has opened its doors to the poorest of the poor, offering subsidised health care to communities used to going without proper treatment.

BY Margarite Clarey

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Vox pop: How much has changed in health and education?

Frontier interns Khine Me Me Win and Season Myo Kyaw ask Yangon residents for their views on health and education reform since the transition to civilian rule: what has changed, what has worked and what still needs to be done.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News, Affairs, Features

The condom stigma

Use of modern contraception has increased significantly in Myanmar over the past decade but condoms use remains low because of perceived links to sex work and pre-marital intercourse.

BY Htet Htet Naing

News, Affairs

The Mon school system faces pressure to grow

Mother-tongue teaching is a feature of the Mon National School system but parents say their children would benefit from more institutions beyond primary level.

BY Wonsa Mon

News Feed, News

Nurturing confident and creative kids

Daw Angela May Pan Oo completed a Master in Early Childhood Education at Columbia University in New York in 2015 before returning to Myanmar and establishing Central Park Preschool in Yankin Township.

BY Frontier & Frontier

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