An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
BY Frontier
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
BY Frontier
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Heated campaign rallies have sparked tensions in Pyawbwe Township, a key battleground between the ruling National League for Democracy and opposition Union Solidarity and Development Party.
BY Swe Lei Mon
Frontier has launched an election talk show series aimed at creating a platform for political parties and their candidates to connect with voters, and to give the public more opportunities to learn about their policies.
BY Frontier
More than 220,000 eligible voters displaced by conflict in Rakhine State risk being excluded from the November vote, while local election officials say they’re struggling.
Overzealous campaigning by National League for Democracy supporters has stirred controversy in Sagaing Region by allegedly violating COVID-19 restrictions, but NLD members insist the party isn’t responsible.
A Frontier investigation has uncovered a network of accounts sharing disinformation targeting the NLD and the Rohingya ahead of Myanmar's election.
Rights group Burma Campaign UK announced that the global shipping giant has agreed to stop using military-owned ports in Myanmar by the end of October.
BY AFP
Health officials have denied multiplying online reports of people with COVID-19 symptoms being turned away from hospitals, but admit they’re straining to cope with an influx of patients.
BY Frontier
Frontier visits a busy fever clinic in Insein Township, where rapid antigen test kits purchased from South Korea are helping boost Myanmar's COVID-19 testing capacity.
BY Hkun Lat
Politically engaged monks have been active in Myanmar since before independence but their role in the November election is unlikely to be as divisive as it was in 2015.
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