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Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

A boycott launched in the wake of the February 1 coup has caused sales of Myanmar Beer to plummet – and may even have wiped US$1 billion off the value of its military-linked parent company.

BY Frontier

Uncategorized, News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business

Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

A boycott launched in the wake of the February 1 coup has caused sales of Myanmar Beer to plummet – and may even have wiped US$1 billion off the value of its military-linked parent company.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, News, Features

The ‘Tumi Revolution’: Protesters fight back in Sagaing Region

Sagaing Region residents equipped with single-shot traditional rifles known as “tumi guns” – and in some cases more modern weaponry – are resisting security forces’ attempts to crush anti-coup protests.

BY Frontier

Uncategorized

‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Ko Kaung Htet, right, on a reporting trip with the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2016. (Sai Zaw Theik)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

Backpage, Opinion

A day on the Yangon River

Yangon’s water bus may not yet be a viable alternative to commuting on the bus or train, but it does make for a pleasant day out.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features

For Muslims across Myanmar, citizenship rights a legal fiction

Members of the Muslim community are facing long delays in citizenship applications unless they acquiesce to officials’ suggestions that they be labelled “Bengali”.

BY Thomas Manch

Affairs, Business, Features

Plundered jade mountains leave gaping hole in govt revenue

The government is conducting a long-overdue review of the opaque, graft-riddled jade industry, which is dominated by powerful vested interests whose activities are costing Myanmar billions of dollars a year in lost revenue.

BY Nyan Hlaing Lynn

Affairs

Myanmar's newsmakers of 2017

Here they are, for better or worse: those who made headlines during 2017, from a beloved canine to political leaders and imprisoned journalists.

BY Frontier

News

Episode 11: Human rights and coal power in Kayin State

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Htet Htet Naing

Affairs, Features

Myanmar’s newsmakers of 2017

Here they are, for better or worse: those who made headlines during 2017, from a beloved canine to political leaders and imprisoned journalists.

BY Frontier

News Feed

ရိုက်တာသတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ရုံးထုတ်၊ ရမန်နှစ်ပတ် ထပ်ယူ

နိုင်ငံတော် လျှို့ဝှက်ချက် အက်ဥပဒေကို ချိုးဖောက်သည်ဟု စွပ်စွဲခံထားရကာ ပြီးခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်နှစ်ပတ်က ဖမ်းဆီးခံခဲ့ရသည့် ရိုက်တာ သတင်းထောက်နှစ်ဦးကို ယနေ့ရုံးထုတ်ပြီး ရမန် နောက်ထပ် နှစ်ပတ်ယူခဲ့သည်ဟု ၎င်းတို့၏ ရှေ့နေက ပြောကြားသည်။

BY Reuters

Affairs, Features

Human rights and Myanmar’s digital gender divide

Female activists preaching a message of tolerance online are finding that they too are becoming a target.

BY Maggi Quadrini

How the CDM can win

Doh Athan

Podcast: Death in detention

Doh Athan

Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

Doh Athan

Podcast: Displaced again

Doh Athan

Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

Doh Athan

Podcast: Death in detention

Doh Athan

Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

Doh Athan

Podcast: Displaced again

Doh Athan

Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

Stories in this issue

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

News Feed, News

Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

The ‘Tumi Revolution’: Protesters fight back in Sagaing Region