Volume 5, Issue 1

February 28, 2019

Volume 5, Issue 1

Garment factories supplying EU market accused of targeting union leaders

Workers and activists allege a crackdown on organised labour in Yangon’s garment factories, including those supplying major European brands.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon, Nikolaj Houmann Mortensen & Phyo Thiha Cho

Editorial, Opinion

Chinks in the armour

In early 2016, the creation of the State Counsellor position for Daw Aung San Suu Kyi prompted cries of “democratic bullying” from unelected Tatmadaw MPs.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Soldiers frisk monks as Rakhine conflict deepens

The fallout over fighting in Rakhine State has included a Tatmadaw operation to search monks returning to Yangon after sitting exams in Sittwe.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Let the children play

A Yangon-based foundation says giving children more play time would benefit their overall development and build bridges between communities.

BY Alfred Skartveit Helskog

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Tanintharyi villagers keep up fight against tin mine

A poor community cites decades of land dispossession and environmental degradation in their opposition to a Thai-operated tin mine in rural Dawei Township.

BY Win Zar Ni Aung

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Gas power project involving Total and Siemens angers fishing communities

Residents of coastal villages in Tanintharyi Region say their livelihoods have been hurt by work on an LNG-fired power project involving European companies Total and Siemens.

BY Ye Htut Win

Bizfeed, Business, Features

Uncertainty clouds bank equity move

Domestic banks have been slow to act on a reform allowing equity injections of up to 35 percent by foreign banks, with some citing continued confusion over the rules.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Opinion

Yangon’s ‘new city’ plan raises a billion-dollar question

With the New Yangon City project, the government needs to learn the lessons of Myitsone and Kyaukphyu.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

Governing the Ayeyarwady

It’s time that the nation’s most important single natural resource benefitted from a dedicated management authority.

BY Joern Kristensen

Opinion

Ethnic language teaching’s decentralisation dividend

The teaching of ethnic languages in schools and development of local curricula could deliver both educational and political benefits, and represent critical steps towards decentralisation.

BY Nicolas Salem-Gervais & Mael Raynaud

Bizfeed, Photo Essays, Affairs, Business, Features

Big names trade barbs over equestrian venue

Some prominent businesspeople are pitted against each other in a dispute between the Myanmar Equestrian Federation and the Yangon Equestrian and Country Club.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Dawei case deals another setback to press freedom

A court ruling in Dawei is another disappointment for journalists who had expected a free and flourishing print media under the NLD government.

BY Ye Mon

Travel, Features, Culture

Adventure travel firm lends a helping hand

The fourth installment of our series about award-winning responsible tourism businesses profiles Myanmar Adventure Outfitters, a company that takes tourists off the beaten track while offering a helping hand to locals.

BY Alfred Skartveit Helskog

Travel, Features, Culture

Wild waters: Hpa-an

For the sixth installment in our travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we venture into Kayin State to clamber down mountain streams, discover deserted waterfalls and enjoy one of the best wild swims in Myanmar.

BY Dominic Horner

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