An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
An escalation of airstrikes on two Magway townships this year has hindered work at small-scale oil wells, which support the local economy and help fund the resistance, and sparked a race to build bomb shelters.
BY Frontier
United States funding cuts have hit TB treatment in Myanmar particularly hard, leaving many of the country’s most vulnerable in a precarious position after the post-coup healthcare collapse erased years of progress.
BY Frontier
The swift delivery of aid to survivors of the recent earthquake must take precedence over transient political gains in a long-running conflict.
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The overstretched military is increasingly recruiting young men in urban areas against their will, often targeting them at night and threatening them with imprisonment.
BY Frontier
The labour ministry’s new 1,000 kyat “allowance” skirts minimum wage law requirements at a time when the military’s mishandling of the economy has drastically shrunk workers’ purchasing power.
BY Frontier
Opponents of Myanmar's junta use drone attacks to challenge the military's dominance of the skies through its Russian- and Chinese-built jets and helicopters.
BY AFP
A migrant worker from central Myanmar tells Frontier how he fled Laukkai as war closed in on the town bordering China, bringing with it death, destruction and allegations of forced recruitment.
BY Frontier
Coming into effect last week, United States sanctions on the Myanma Oil and Gas Enterprise won’t hit as hard as they could have, but they will still shrink the junta’s coffers while avoiding harm to the wider economy.
BY Frontier
The resistance has seized a series of towns in recent months, marking a clear escalation in the war to overthrow the military regime, but questions remain about the viability of the strategy.
BY Frontier
The military regime needs foreign allies to survive, but as gas and other resources dry up, it has little to offer them in return.
BY Frontier
Mines are being dug across Tanintharyi Region amid a collapse in environmental regulation and the chaos of armed conflict, with minerals exported to Thailand and China.
BY Frontier
Myanmar became the world's biggest producer of opium in 2023, overtaking Afghanistan after the Taliban government's crackdown on the trade, according to a United Nations report released today.
BY AFP
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