The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
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The most likely outcome of the economic turmoil triggered by the coup is a period of slow economic growth and joblessness, even as inflation rises and the value of the kyat continues to slide against the US dollar.
BY Frontier
An escalation in fighting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Tatmadaw near the town of Mong Ko on the China border has emptied villages, while inflaming longstanding tensions over who controls the area.
As military repression ramps up, some trade unions and activists are calling on brands to boycott Myanmar’s garment sector – but not everyone believes the campaign will hit its intended target.
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BY Su Myat Mon
ကလဲရ် ဟမ်မွန် နှင့် ဝင်းဇာနည်အောင် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံမှာ ကျယ်ကျယ်ပြန့်ပြန့် ဖြစ်ပွားနေတဲ့ အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုတွေကို တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးအတွက် အဂတိလိုက်စားမှု တိုက်ဖျက်ရေးကော်မရှင်အနေနဲ့ ဘယ်လိုကြိုးပမ်းနေတယ်ဆိုတာကို ကော်မရှင်ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ ဦးအောင်ကြည်က Frontier ကို ဇွန် ၁၁ ရက်နေ့က ပြောကြားခဲ့ပါတယ်။ သမ္မတဦးဝင်းမြင့်က သူ သမ္မတဖြစ်ပြီး ချက်ချင်းဆိုသလိုပဲ အဂတိလိုက်စားမှုတိုက်ဖျက်ရေးကော်မရှင်နဲ့ တွေ့ဆုံခဲ့ပါတယ်။ အဲဒီက သူက ဘာတွေ.
With an offshore oil and gas tender on the horizon, the Ministry of Electricity and Energy says it is reviewing the fiscal terms in its production sharing contracts to make the country more internationally competitive.
BY Thomas Kean
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U Aung Kyi spoke to Frontier about President U Win Myint’s support for an ambitious anti-corruption drive that aims to end bribery and enforce transparent government spending.
I have never seen a grown man look as bored as Oliver while he was playing Dungeons & Dragons.
I have never seen a grown man look as bored as Oliver while he was playing Dungeons & Dragons.
A new alleyway renovation project in downtown Yangon is the latest project from a social enterprise aiming to promote citizen-led heritage conservation and urban regeneration in Myanmar.
BY Oliver Slow
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