Volume 5, Issue 4

April 11, 2019

Volume 5, Issue 4

News Feed, News, Affairs, Business, Features

Opium, coffee and the politics of foreign aid

The nascent coffee sector has been lauded for weaning smallholder farmers off opium planting, but in Shan State two donor-backed projects have been fighting bitterly over farmers.

BY Florian Guckelsberger

Editorial, Opinion

Yangon’s election flop

Yangon held a milestone election on March 31. But you might not have noticed, or paid it much regard. Neither did many of the residents of Myanmar’s biggest city.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

A family banished on Ramree Island

A family on Rakhine State’s Ramree Island has been banished because it refused to pay for a religious ceremony after carrying a drowned toddler’s body through a village.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Breaking into the job market a challenge for women with disabilities

Breaking into the job market can be a big challenge for women with disabilities, but a Yangon organisation is helping an increasing number enjoy greater independence.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Fighting harassment on campus

Students at Yangon University have launched a campaign against sexual harassment on campus and hope it will receive more support from the administration.

BY Win Zar Ni Aung

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Pop-up clinics lend a hand in Nagaland

NGOs are filling healthcare gaps in one of the country’s poorest regions, but building trust and navigating bad roads remain formidable challenges.

BY Victoria Milko

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

The ‘victims’ of baby formula

Illegal, aggressive advertising tactics are turning nursing mothers into victims of baby formula companies and jeopardising infant health, warn nutritionists.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

Why is Serge Pun betting on tourism?

Tourism has borne the brunt of an economic slowdown and the international outcry over Rakhine, but one tycoon is feeling bullish about the industry.

BY Ben Dunant

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

NLD-Tatmadaw relations: strong words, rising tensions

Differences over the need for changes to the constitution are the main reason why relations between the government and the Tatmadaw are far from smooth.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

Media under siege

Media outlets throughout the country are struggling with low revenues, the risk of legal harassment and subsidised competition in the form of state-owned dailies.

BY Oliver Slow

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

In Laiza, building an ‘iron spirit’

A visit to the Arakan Army “temporary” headquarters in the stronghold of the Kachin Independence Army reveals a large number of fresh recruits and newly minted officers ready to be dispatched to Myanmar’s latest conflict zone.

BY Ye Mon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Independents cry foul over party logos in YCDC election

Independent candidates in the recent Yangon municipal election blame their losses on the decision to allow political party logos during the campaign and on ballot papers, as the head of the election commission concedes to Frontier that the contest between candidates was not fair.

BY Ye Mon & Su Myat Mon

Affairs, Features, Culture

Searching for Lim Chin Tsong

Stories abound about the tycoon who built a Chinese-style mansion in Yangon. One involves a hidden printing press, counterfeit British pounds and an American honey trap.

BY Frontier & Frontier