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Rivals struggle to take advantage of military beer boycott

A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.

BY Frontier

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Rivals struggle to take advantage of military beer boycott

A boycott campaign that has sent sales of military-owned beers plummeting has created shortages of rival products, with breweries unable to meet demand and facing a shortage of cans.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Features

With tales of torture, campaign seeks to divide armed resistance

Pro-military Facebook accounts are seeking to drive a wedge between ethnic armed groups and civilian resistance with disinformation, but are struggling to break the unity of the anti-coup opposition.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News, Features

‘These are kidnappings’: Junta targets relatives of activists on the run

Security forces are increasingly arresting the family members of activists who are on the run – effectively holding them hostage without charge.

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

Features, Culture

Turning the page with a new generation of children’s books

Two altruistic organisations are creating and publishing books for children that carry messages aimed at fostering diversity, tolerance and peace.

BY Sing Lee

Interview, Features

Rotavirus expert: ‘It’s something that affects every child’

Dr Mathuram Santosham of John Hopkins University speaks to Frontier about combatting rotavirus in Myanmar.

BY Oliver Slow

News Feed, News

Yangon man faces jail for speaking about child soldier past

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BY AFP

Business, Opinion

How to list a company on the YSX

It is expected that foreign investors will likely be allowed to partake in Myanmar’s first bourse by the end of this year. Here is a helpful guide to getting your company listed.

BY Ross Taylor

Business, Features

Pedal power recipe for business success

Food delivery services using staff on bicycles are proving popular in Yangon, partly because they offer convenience for customers keen to avoid the city’s worsening traffic congestion.

BY Sing Lee

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

The peculiar priorities of the Myanmar Police Force

The Myanmar Police Force seems to have been devoting more time and effort to hunting down journalists than suppressing crime and maintaining law and order.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

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အတားအဆီးတွေကို ကျော်လွန်ပြောင်းလဲခြင်း

မျိုးဆက်ပေါင်းများစွာ သူတို့ကို ဒုတိယတန်းနေရာပဲပေးပြီး ခွဲခြားဆက်ဆံမှုကို ခံကြရတဲ့ အတားအဆီးတွေကို ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ကျောက်ဖြူမြို့နယ်က အမျိုးသမီးတွေက ထိုးဖောက်ကျော်လွန်နိုင်ခဲ့ကြပြီ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်။

BY Jennifer Macintyre

Affairs

SCL scam's victims: Where trust was broken

Residents of a small village in Mon State were victims of a scam that went nationwide. One man involved in the scheme is showing a distinct lack of remorse.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Affairs, Features

SCL scam’s victims: Where trust was broken

Residents of a small village in Mon State were victims of a scam that went nationwide. One man involved in the scheme is showing a distinct lack of remorse.

BY Hein Ko Soe

Opinion

News Feed, Education, Opinion

The emerging alternatives to ‘military slave education’

News Feed, News, Features, Opinion

Tiananmen and the Tatmadaw: Killing their own people

Opinion

The NUG must commit to human rights for all Myanmar’s people

Business, Opinion

A crisis of confidence looms over Myanmar’s banks

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

Doh Athan

Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

Doh Athan

Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID crisis in Kalay

Doh Athan

Podcast: Locals battle military for land compensation in Mon State

Doh Athan

Podcast: Water shortages hit Magway villages

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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Rivals struggle to take advantage of military beer boycott

Rivals struggle to take advantage of military beer boycott

With tales of torture, campaign seeks to divide armed resistance