As Facebook cracks down on disinformation in Myanmar, observers warn that some bad actors are moving to YouTube, where lax enforcement is allowing fake news and content theft to proliferate.
As Facebook cracks down on disinformation in Myanmar, observers warn that some bad actors are moving to YouTube, where lax enforcement is allowing fake news and content theft to proliferate.
As a new parliament convenes, the mood among MPs is far removed from the euphoria of five years ago, but the ruling party says it’s untroubled by electoral fraud allegations from the pro-military opposition.
A matrix of social issues is swelling the ranks of Myanmar’s abandoned children.
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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
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
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
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.
Myanmar’s LGBT community is confronting out-dated laws that criminalise their personal lives and hostile attitudes fed by popular culture.
Prolonged ceasefires and a lack of trust have created opportunities for non-state forces to build up their economic and military resources, adding further complexity to ongoing ceasefire and political negotiations.
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Myanmar’s LGBT community is confronting out-dated laws that criminalise their personal lives and hostile attitudes fed by popular culture.
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