Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
BY Frontier
Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
BY Frontier
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Legal changes are urgently needed to protect sex workers from violence and abuse, say activists, but political sensitivities may be delaying reform.
BY Su Myat Mon
သတင်းထောက်တစ်ဦးရဲ့အလုပ်ကို လုပ်နေရာကနေ ထောင်ဒဏ် ၁၄ နှစ်အထိ ချမှတ်နိုင်တဲ့အမှုကို ရင်ဆိုင်ခဲ့ရတဲ့ ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက် ကိုဝလုံးနဲ့ ဇနီးသည်ဖြစ်သူတို့က သူတို့ရဲ့သမီးဦးလေးဟာ မိသားစုအတွက် ကံကောင်းခြင်းတွေ ဆောင်ယူလာလိမ့်မယ့်လို့ မျှော်လင့်ထားကြပါတယ်။
BY Ye Mon
For the second installment in our travel series focused on wild swimming spots, we head to Taunggyi and Heho for pastoral tranquility, orange toenails and a transcendent sunset swim.
A brief explainer about how Burmese names are decided.
BY Sharon Pun
On July 9, Frontier published an article on recent conflict in Kayin State, “Missing pieces on Myanmar’s ceasefire chessboard”.
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The national anti-corruption body is investigating a Yangon court’s decision to drop charges against three men accused of killing movie star Aung Ye Htwe.
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