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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.

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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

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

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‘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

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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

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Tatmadaw meets ANP ahead of hluttaw debate

Leaders of the Arakan National Party held talks with Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing on Wednesday ahead of a key debate in the Amyotha Hluttaw.

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Editorial, Opinion

The unnatural order of things

Does Myanmar want an authoritarian state with a few democratic accoutrements? Or does it want a society in which the powerful can genuinely be held to account?

BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs

China's military reform and Myanmar’s security dynamic

Far-reaching reform of the People’s Liberation Army initiated by President Xi Jinping has significant implications for defence policy and the quest for peace in Myanmar.

BY Amara Thiha

News Feed, News

Returning Rakhine villagers call for more security

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BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

450,000 illegal Myanmar workers in Thailand meet registration deadline

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BY Frontier & Frontier

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တောင့်တင်းလုံလောက်သည့် လုံခြုံရေးစီမံပေးရန် မောင်တောရှိ ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများ တောင်းဆို

တောင့်တင်းလုံလောက်သည့် လုံခြုံရေးရှိမှသာ မိမိတို့ နေရပ်တွင် အစဉ်အမြဲပြန်လည်နေထိုင်ရန် ဖြစ်နိုင်မည်ဟု လွန်ခဲ့သည့် ရက်သတ္တပတ်အတွင်း မေယုတောင်တန်းအနီးတဝိုက် ရခိုင်ရွာများမှ ရသေ့တောင်မြို့နယ်၊ စေတီပြင်ရွာသို့ ထွက်ပြေးတိမ်းရှောင်လာခဲ့ကြသူ ရခိုင်တိုင်းရင်းသားများက ပြောကြားကြသည်။

BY Hein Ko Soe

Affairs, Features

China’s military reform and Myanmar’s security dynamic

Far-reaching reform of the People’s Liberation Army in China has significant implications for defence policy and the quest for peace in Myanmar.

BY Amara Thiha

Photo Essays, Features, Culture

The master harp maker and an imperilled craft

A master craftsman in the art of making Burmese harps fears for the future of one of the country’s best-known traditional instruments.

BY Su Myat Mon

News Feed, News

Muted ceremonies held for 1988 unrest anniversary

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BY Hein Ko Soe

How the CDM can win

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Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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Podcast: Displaced again

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

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Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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Podcast: Displaced again

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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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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Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

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