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Wild Waters: Yangon Region

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.

BY Dominic Horner

News Feed, Uncategorized, Travel, Culture

Wild Waters: Yangon Region

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.

BY Dominic Horner

News

Air pollution: The other invisible menace

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

News Feed, 2020 Election, News

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

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.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Ben Dunant

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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In this Myanmar American News video, Go Shal Lay – whose real name is U Aung Naing Htwe – claims that President U Win Myint is a Chinese citizen and pledges to reveal the president's corruption. (Frontier)

YouTube: Myanmar’s new disinformation frontier

Childhood denied: A reporter reflects

Children peer out from a doorway at the Yellow Generation Wave Monastery in Yangon Region. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Single mothers left with few good options

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

News Feed, News

Govt officials push coal plant at investment fair

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BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News

Bangladesh, Myanmar agree to start refugee return in two months

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BY AFP

News Feed, Features

ချန်ပီယံသစ် ပေါ်ထွက်ခဲ့သလို လိဂ်ကို လက်ပြနှုတ်ဆက်ခဲ့တဲ့ အသင်းတွေ စံချိန်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ဘောလုံးရာသီ

ချန်ပီယံသစ် ပေါ်ထွက်လာပေမယ့် ကမောက်ကမဖြစ်စဉ်တွေနဲ့ပြည့်နှက်နေခဲ့တဲ့၂၀၁၇ မြန်မာနေရှင်နယ်လိဂ်ဘောလုံးရာသီဟာ မကြာမီက ပြီးဆုံးသွားခဲ့ပြီဖြစ်သလို လိဂ်ကို လက်ပြနှုတ်ဆက်သွားခဲ့တဲ့ အသင်းတွေ စံချိန်တင်ခဲ့တဲ့ ရာသီလည်း ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

Two new ministries established to ‘ease workload’ for govt

The Pyidaungsu Hluttaw has voted in favour of forming two new ministries aimed at easing the workload of the current administration.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Affairs

Probe finds MICA deals brought ‘few benefits’ for government

Lawmakers say deals agreed by the Myanmar International Cooperation Agency should be renegotiated after uncovering irregularities in the agency’s activities.

BY Frontier

News, Affairs, Features

An outpost of Catholicism in Myanmar prepares for the Pope

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BY AFP

News Feed, News

US calls Rakhine security operation ‘ethnic cleansing’

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BY Oliver Slow

News Feed, News

ASEM statement mentions ‘humanitarian emergencies’, ignores Rakhine crisis

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BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News

The Myanmar National League’s season to forget

Myanmar’s premier football league has endured a season of crises, with two top-tier teams dropping out, another being expelled and a fourth becoming the victim of an alleged coup plot in Turkey.

BY Htun Khaing

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

Doh Athan

Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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Why we’re back in print

We’re not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.

News Feed, News, Affairs

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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