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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

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ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

BY Frontier

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The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

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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)

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Jade exports earn $23m in Q1, show ministry figures

An emporium in March has significantly boosted official jade revenues, state media has reported.

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UNODC’s Jeremy Douglas: ‘Myanmar really is the epicentre of the drug trade’

The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime regional representative on Myanmar's commanding position in the regional drug trade, effective treatment for addiction, and changes in the methamphetamine market.

BY Oliver Slow

Bizfeed, Business

India plans $252m upgrade to road link with Myanmar

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BY Frontier & Frontier

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Kandawgyi Park balloon raises ire of residents, local lawmakers

A new tourist attraction in Yangon has been sucked in to a bitter dispute between regional MPs and the regional government.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Affairs, Interview, Business

'The ministry needs to move fast to keep the lights on'

Delphos International, a Washington DC-based company focused on project financing in emerging markets, recently completed the first phase of a study on Myanmar’s energy sector under a project financed by the United States Trade and Development Agency (USTDA). At the request of the Ministry of Electricity and Energy, the study was expanded to include the state of the national electricity grid and its capacity to handle power from renewable sources. The manager of the project, Mr Eric Shumway, spoke to Frontier’s Thomas Kean about why the ministry has concerns about renewables, comparing the cost of different power generation types and why power shortages could get much worse before the situation begins to improve. Before joining Delphos to manage the project, Shumway was a director at London Economics International, an energy economics consultancy.

BY Thomas Kean

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Mandalay farmers stage week-long protest over land grabs

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A cinema to be treasured in Mon State

Myanmar’s architectural treasures include an ornate teak cinema in Mudon that was built nearly 100 years ago and is probably unique in mainland Southeast Asia.

BY Philip Jablon

Affairs, Interview, Business, Features

The ministry needs to move fast to keep the lights on’

Eric Shumway, associate director of Delphos International, speaks to Frontier about Myanmar's acute and growing electricity needs.

BY Thomas Kean

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Lawmaker demands public apology over YBS crash

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BY Su Myat Mon

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The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

Opinion

‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Fear and terror in Magway

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

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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.

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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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