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Myanmar activists face a new opponent: the public

Activists have faced a barrage of criticism on social media over protests in support of peace and other causes.

Myanmar activists face a new opponent: the public

Activists have faced a barrage of criticism on social media over protests in support of peace and other causes.

KNU heavyweight prepares for election battle

Lifelong revolutionary Padoh Mahn Nyein Maung speaks to Frontier’s Naw Betty Han about his decision to resign as a senior Karen National Union leader in order to make a run for parliament.

Dubious legends

A television drama that extols the role of the Tatmadaw in Myanmar’s modern history is a failure of art and propaganda but provides insights into the psychology of the armed forces.

By Myint Myat Thu

Special report: Abuses, exploitation rife in Myanmar’s forgotten prison labour camps

Some 20,000 convicts toil in prison camps across the country, where they face abuse, exploitation and forced labour, a Myanmar Now investigation finds.

All quiet on the policy front

Government ministries have begun announcing the results of their 100-day plans, but most observers remain underwhelmed by the progress made to date.

Wa delegation walks out of Panglong conference

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Thai kingpin jailed for Rohingya trafficking

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Social media shines a light on Myanmar’s taboo topics

Myanmar’s social media boom is enabling people to speak up – whether it’s to complain to the government, help keep aggressive bus drivers off Yangon’s roads or make a dangerous expressway safer.

Shock FX

Gruesome injuries, dangling eyeballs and dripping blood are among the creative repertoire of a small but growing number of special effects make-up artists working in the movie industry.

Panglong 21 and the long search for peace

The 21^st Century Panglong conference is a symbolic step toward peace and national reconciliation, but huge challenges remain.

၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံံ၌ ဆွေးနွေးခဲ့သည်များ အလဟဿ မဖြစ်စေရန် စီစဉ်မည်

အပြန်အလှန်ဆွေးနွေးခြင်းနဲ့ ဆုံးဖြတ်ခြင်းတွေ ပြုလုပ်ဖို့မရှိတဲ့ ၂၁ ရာစု ပင်လုံညီလာခံကြီးက ဆွေးနွေးချက်များကို မှတ်တမ်းတင်ရုံသာမကဘဲ မကြာခင်မှာ နိုင်ငံအနှံ့ ပြုလုပ်သွားဖို့စီစဉ်နေတဲ့ အမျိုးသားအဆင့် နိုင်ငံရေးဆွေးနွေးပွဲတွေမှာ အသုံးပြုသွားမှာ ဖြစ်ပါတယ်

By Frontier

Affairs, Business, Features

Telecoms boom fuels fierce competition in used phone market

The competition for secondhand and counterfeit mobile phones is intense in a market that’s been flooded with the products since the telecoms sector was liberalised in 2013.

By Thi Ri Han

Opinion

Backpage, Opinion

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 7

August 11, 2020

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Shan farmer’s killing leaves villagers burning with anger

After the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 people marched in protest.

Editorial, Opinion

Democracy without the dividend

It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.

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By Naw Betty Han

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