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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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
Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.
BY Hein Thar
Frustrated by a lack of reform, 11 activists are competing as independents in the election on behalf of workers and farmers.
BY Frontier
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