For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.
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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Female activists preaching a message of tolerance online are finding that they too are becoming a target.
နိုင်ငံတော် လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် အက်ဥပဒေကို ချိုးဖောက်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲခံထားရကာ ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်နှစ်ပတ်က ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရိုက်တာ သတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ယနေ့ရုံးထုတ်ပြီး ရမန် နောက်ထပ် နှစ်ပတ်ယူခဲ့သည်ဟု ၎င်းတို့၏ ရှေ့နေက ပြောကြားသည်။
BY Reuters
Female activists preaching a message of tolerance online are finding that they too are becoming a target.
Taxes collected by municipalities from owners and occupiers are structurally sound and administratively straightforward, but play a much smaller role in Myanmar than they could.
The public response to the arrest of the two Reuters reporters is indicative of a wider debate about the role of journalists in Myanmar.
Reuters executive editor Mr Reg Chua tells Frontier’s Thomas Kean about the news agency’s campaign to free its reporters and the “chilling” effect their arrest will have on Myanmar’s media.
BY Thomas Kean
The second Myanmar Gems Emporium of the year was held in Nay Pyi Taw from December 12 to 21. Here’s what we learned.
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