An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos among the humanitarian community and its beneficiaries in Myanmar and Thailand.
BY Frontier
An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos among the humanitarian community and its beneficiaries in Myanmar and Thailand.
BY Frontier
Min Aung Hlaing has been thrown a lifeline by China and is now under pressure to show results, but his planned election is growing less feasible by the day.
BY Frontier
Regime authorities appear to be increasingly abducting young men on the street or during household inspections to boost the number of military conscripts, while families and activists say bribes are no longer enough to free them.
BY Frontier
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Millions of the nation’s most vulnerable families are receiving cash handouts totalling K40,000 to alleviate the impact of COVID-19, but some appear to be falling through the cracks.
BY Frontier
Several thousand protesters marched in southeast Myanmar to demand the military's withdrawal from the area and an end to rights abuses.
BY AFP
The leadership of the Arakan National Party has been accused of acting “like dictators” for refusing to allow some of its MPs to resign and contest the election for rival Rakhine parties.
BY Frontier
The film industry was dealing with a huge backlog of movies and questions about box office takings and tax evasion. Then came COVID-19.
Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.
BY Ben Dunant
When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.
BY Frontier
Frontier reporter Kyaw Lin Htoon recalls his coming-of-age, and reflects on the worrying state of journalism today.
A lack of job opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers in order to cross back into Thailand illegally.
BY Lawi Weng
Myanmar needs to do much more to ensure responsible conduct by investors, and a National Action Plan could point the way forward.
BY Frontier
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