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Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

News Feed, Science

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Myanmar’s child immunisation programmes are failing to reach children across the country, particularly in conflict zones. Health experts warn the results could be devastating.

BY Frontier

News

Inside the junta’s war on student unions

Mysterious associations have been replacing independent student unions, which have long played an active role in the pro-democracy movement.

BY Frontier

Business

Rice exports dry up due to forex restrictions, rising prices

The surprise decision to fix the rate of the kyat has harmed the competitiveness of Myanmar’s rice exports, traders say, and orders from abroad are already beginning to decline.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Ko Kaung Htet, right, on a reporting trip with the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2016. (Sai Zaw Theik)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Opinion

Peace through development: China’s experiment in Myanmar

Recurring conflict and military stalemate in northern Myanmar have prompted China to embark on a bold experiment – one with implications that Nay Pyi Taw might not yet even comprehend.

BY Yun Sun

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

‘Tip of the iceberg’: finance minister pledges to address illicit trade

Smuggling is costing the government heavily in lost revenue; poor enforcement means that for every 5,000 cans of beer brought into the country illegally, only one is seized.

BY Thomas Kean

Culture

'Playing for beauty and playing to fight': Myanmar's martial arts

Veterans of Myanmar’s traditional martial arts, or thaing, fear for its future but hope it can replicate the revival and growing international reach of other Southeast Asian fighting forms.

BY Hein Thar

Features, Culture

Playing for beauty and playing to fight’: Myanmar’s martial arts

Veterans of Myanmar’s traditional martial arts, or thaing, fear for its future but hope it can replicate the revival and growing international reach of other Southeast Asian fighting forms.

BY Hein Thar

Features, Culture

Review: ‘A Country, A Town, A Human’ at Myanm/art

An exhibition by Yangon multimedia artist Khin Thet Htar Latt leaves Frontier’s art critic thoughtful but wanting more.

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

The government’s pointless battles with ethnic activists

By picking unnecessary battles with ethnic activists, the government is laying fertile ground for resurgent ethnic parties to win over voters who plumped for the NLD four years ago.

BY Frontier

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Discord and manoeuvring over ‘national security’

The reluctance of the government to convene the powerful National Defence and Security Council has attracted the ire of the Tatmadaw and the opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Volunteer ambulance crews brave bullets to save lives

Volunteers with community service ambulances in northern Shan State are taking big risks to help others in conflict zones – and sometimes pay with their lives.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Features

ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရ၊စောညီညီနှင့်ရွှေမြစန္ဒီ

အိမ်ယာစီမံကိန်းဖော်ဆောင်သူ ဒီကေဘီအေအရာရှိလည်းအဖမ်းခံရပြီး ရွှေမြစန္ဒီအိမ်ယာတွင်နောက်ဆက်တွဲပြဿနာများစွာတက်ခဲ့ကာ ကရင်ပြည်နယ်အစိုးရပါခေါင်းကိုက်ခဲ့ရသည်။

BY Naw Betty Han

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Is the US Senate Republican leader genuine about his support for Burma?

Opinion

Can the Arakan Army achieve its confederacy dream?

Opinion

Response to Ukraine underscores foot-dragging on Myanmar crisis

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Civilians under fire in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

SMEs struggle to survive amid economic turmoil

Doh Athan

In Magway Region, junta’s campaign of terror continues

Doh Athan

Civilians under fire in Kayin conflict

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

News Feed, News

Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Fears of disease outbreaks as child vaccination rates plummet

Inside the junta’s war on student unions