The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
BY Frontier
The People’s Defence Force has suffered a major symbolic setback by losing control of the first town it seized – accusing the Myanmar military of destroying Kawlin in order to reclaim it – but its troops vow to fight on.
BY Frontier
As the military regime targets places of worship to break popular support for the resistance, Catholic communities caught up in the conflict are being denied the consolations of their religion.
BY Frontier
Malaysia is encouraging undocumented migrants to hand themselves in on the promise to repatriate rather than detain them, but many Myanmar migrants fear being arrested on their return or forced to serve in the military.
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A village on Rakhine State’s Ramree Island is at the centre of a controversy around the granting of citizenship to thousands of Muslims, with some alleging corruption.
Passion and enthusiasm drive a Kachin violinist who achieved his dream of establishing a youth string orchestra from scratch.
Discarded fishing gear brings death and destruction to marine environments and is threatening the unique beauty and biodiversity of Myanmar’s Myeik Archipelago.
Discarded fishing gear brings death and destruction to marine environments and is threatening unique beauty and biodiversity.
There was a time when Myanmar’s anti-graft body was accused of lacking teeth but, under the National League for Democracy government, it has begun to catch big fish.
နဂါးများနှင့် မှော်ဆရာစုန်းထီးများကို ကိုယ်စားပြုနေသော အသေးစိတ်ပြင်ဆင်ထားသည့် ခေါင်းဝတ်အစွပ်များ ဝတ်ဆင်ထားသည့် ပအို့ဝ်တိုင်းရင်းသားများက ကြီးမားသော အိမ်လုပ် မီးလုံးများကို ကောင်းကင်ထဲသို့ ပစ်လွှတ်နေကြသည်။ ယင်းသို့ ပစ်လွှတ်မှုမှာ မိုးကောင်း၍ ငွေပေါစေရန် နှစ်စဉ်ပြုလုပ်သည့် တောင်းဆို ဆုတောင်းပွဲဖြစ်သည်။
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Frontier speaks with Dr Min Zaw Oo, founder of the Myanmar Institute for Peace and Security, about what it would take to revive deadlocked peace negotiations.
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The nascent coffee sector has been lauded for weaning smallholder farmers off opium planting, but in Shan State two donor-backed projects have been fighting bitterly over farmers.
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