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Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News Feed, Uncategorized, Travel, Culture

Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News

Air pollution: The other invisible menace

While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.

BY Kirt A. Page

News Feed, 2020 Election, News

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Ben Dunant

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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In this Myanmar American News video, Go Shal Lay – whose real name is U Aung Naing Htwe – claims that President U Win Myint is a Chinese citizen and pledges to reveal the president's corruption. (Frontier)

YouTube: Myanmar’s new disinformation frontier

Childhood denied: A reporter reflects

Children peer out from a doorway at the Yellow Generation Wave Monastery in Yangon Region. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Single mothers left with few good options

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

News Feed

ရန်ကုန်မြို့ တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲလသာမြို့နယ်၌ စတင်

ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ လသာမြို့နယ်မှာ တရုတ်နှစ်သစ်ကူးပွဲကို ယနေ့ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၅ ရက်နေ့ နံနက်ပိုင်းက စတင်ကျင်းပရာ ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီးဝန်ကြီးချုပ် ဦးဖြိုးမင်းသိန်း တက်ရောက် ဖွင့်လှစ်ပေးခဲ့ပါတယ်။

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

Jolie demands Myanmar ‘commitment’ to end anti-Rohingya violence

Angelina Jolie said that Myanmar must "show genuine commitment" to end violence that has driven hundreds of thousands of Rohingya Muslims into Bangladesh.

BY AFP

Bizfeed, Affairs, Business, Features

The wait’s nearly over for foreign insurers

After years of waiting, foreign insurers have been given the go-ahead to enter the domestic market, to the chagrin of their Myanmar competitors.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

News Feed, News

Myanmar's opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop

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BY AFP

News Feed, News

Angelina Jolie visits Rohingya camp in Bangladesh

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BY AFP

News Feed, News

Myanmar’s opium farmers cling on to lucrative crop

Fields of purple opium poppy stretch across the pastures and peaks of eastern Myanmar, with many farmers reluctant to give up the profitable cash crop.

BY AFP

Travel, Affairs, Features

From Venice to Inle Lake

In the first of a series profiling Myanmar’s leading responsible tourism businesses, Frontier meets enterprising tourist guide Myo Min Zaw, who went to Italy for professional development and returned with an altruistic idea.

BY Sha Miao

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Rogue yogi: a fortune-teller faces trial for fraud

A woman who affected religious piety and claimed to have friends in high places has faced court accused of involvement in a multi-billion-kyat investment scam.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, Breaking News, News, Affairs

Hundreds jobless as Adidas supplier shuts down amid dispute

More than 700 workers have been left jobless after the closure of a Yangon shoe factory that had defied an order to reinstate a sacked workplace labour union member.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

Doh Athan

Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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