Informal migration from Myanmar is being blamed for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 that has left Thailand in lockdown and prompted Thai authorities to step up security along the 2,400-kilometre frontier.
BY Lawi Weng
Informal migration from Myanmar is being blamed for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 that has left Thailand in lockdown and prompted Thai authorities to step up security along the 2,400-kilometre frontier.
BY Lawi Weng
We're not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.
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Purrfect English Youth Essay Competition winner May Myat Noe Khant imagines a future in which urbanisation and increased foreign investment privilege a lucky few but leave the rest behind.
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Two craft beer lovers have made beer history by opening the country's first microbrewery, breaking into an industry dominated by the military, foreign corporations and a single, wealthy family.
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BY Su Myat Mon
After numerous delays, Yoma Strategic Holdings broke ground on the “Landmark” mixed use development in downtown Yangon on February 16. Yoma’s head of real estate Mr Cyrus Pun spoke to Frontier about the project’s latest developments, the issues they faced in reaching this point and the company’s other major projects.
BY Oliver Slow
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Myanmar’s English newspaper of record has outlasted the jailing of one of its founders for contrived offences, a suffocating censorship regime not lifted until 2012 and a controversial early connection with the junta. It may not outlast its current management.
BY Sean Gleeson
Infighting has increasingly defined the labour movement since trade unions were legalised in 2012 and a recent election has further divided this already fractious area of local civil society.
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