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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

Seven years after Buddhist mobs burned down mosques and slaughtered dozens of children at an Islamic school, hundreds of Muslims remain displaced and they say the NLD government has done little to help heal or rebuild since.

BY Swe Lei Mon

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‘We have nothing to rely on but Allah’: Meiktila’s Muslims see little hope in election

BY Swe Lei Mon

News Feed, 2020 Election, Breaking News, News

Hard talk or hate speech? Outlet spreads disinformation and bigotry under guise of political commentary

The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.

BY Andrew Nachemson, Phone Htet Naung & Banyar Kyaw

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Jade exports earn $23m in Q1, show ministry figures

An emporium in March has significantly boosted official jade revenues, state media has reported.

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Affairs, Interview, Features

UNODC’s Jeremy Douglas: ‘Myanmar really is the epicentre of the drug trade’

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime regional representative on Myanmar's commanding position in the regional drug trade, effective treatment for addiction, and changes in the methamphetamine market.

BY Oliver Slow

Bizfeed, Business

India plans $252m upgrade to road link with Myanmar

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Kandawgyi Park balloon raises ire of residents, local lawmakers

A new tourist attraction in Yangon has been sucked in to a bitter dispute between regional MPs and the regional government.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

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Mandalay farmers stage week-long protest over land grabs

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BY AFP

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A cinema to be treasured in Mon State

Myanmar’s architectural treasures include an ornate teak cinema in Mudon that was built nearly 100 years ago and is probably unique in mainland Southeast Asia.

BY Philip Jablon

Affairs, Interview, Business, Features

The ministry needs to move fast to keep the lights on’

Eric Shumway, associate director of Delphos International, speaks to Frontier about Myanmar's acute and growing electricity needs.

BY Thomas Kean

Affairs, Interview, Business

'The ministry needs to move fast to keep the lights on'

Delphos International, a Washington DC-based company focused on project financing in emerging markets, recently completed the first phase of a study on Myanmar’s energy sector under a project financed by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). At the request of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, the study was expanded to include the state of the national electricity grid and its capacity to handle power from renewable sources. The manager of the project, Mr Eric Shumway, spoke to Frontier’s Thomas Kean about why the ministry has concerns about renewables, comparing the cost of different power generation types and why power shortages could get much worse before the situation begins to improve. Before joining Delphos to manage the project, Shumway was a director at London Economics International, an energy economics consultancy.

BY Thomas Kean

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Bilateral committee to discuss Thailand’s new employment rules

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

News Feed, Backpage, Opinion

Fever dream: inside a Yangon fever clinic at the epicentre of the pandemic

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

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Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

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Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

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Podcast: COVID Confusion

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Volume 6, Issue 12

October 22, 2020

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

Kyaw Myint is just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg of criminal activity in Myanmar’s business community, but as long as you steer clear of politics you’re unlikely to get caught.

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Myths, militias and the destruction of Loi Sam Sip

Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.

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