For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores swimming spots.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores swimming spots.
While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.
BY Kirt A. Page
Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.
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A small community of female bodybuilders are powering through stigma to lift the sport to greater heights.
A small community of female bodybuilders are powering through stigma to lift the sport to greater heights.
Optimism for media reform was pervasive among journalists in the early years of the last government but has virtually evaporated since the NLD came to power.
Frontier sits down with Mr Filip A Lauwerysen, the executive director of EuroCham Myanmar.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
ON DECEMBER 14, the European Chamber of Commerce in Myanmar, better known as EuroCham, published its second annual Business Confidence Survey. The survey found European companies had mixed feelings about the business environment and direction of the country’s economy. Frontier’s Kyaw Ye Lynn sat down with Mr Filip A Lauwerysen, the executive director of EuroCham Myanmar, to get a better understanding of how European companies see Myanmar as a place to do business.
BY Kyaw Ye Lynn
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Animals provide a vital transport service in Kyaukphyu, where rural isolation and waterways prevent more modern alternatives.
BY Su Myat Mon
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