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Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News Feed, Uncategorized, Travel, Culture

Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News

Air pollution: The other invisible menace

While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.

BY Kirt A. Page

News Feed, 2020 Election, News

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Ben Dunant

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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In this Myanmar American News video, Go Shal Lay – whose real name is U Aung Naing Htwe – claims that President U Win Myint is a Chinese citizen and pledges to reveal the president's corruption. (Frontier)

YouTube: Myanmar’s new disinformation frontier

Childhood denied: A reporter reflects

Children peer out from a doorway at the Yellow Generation Wave Monastery in Yangon Region. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Single mothers left with few good options

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Affairs, Business, Features

How to boost Myanmar entrepreneurs

There’s huge potential for startups in Myanmar, but entrepreneurs need resilience, determination, passion and financial backing to turn their bright ideas into successful businesses. More government support would help, too.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Features, Culture

It’s like freedom’: Myanmar heavy metal crashes into the open

While underground metal musicians managed to stay out of jails during the junta era, their jarring sound and brooding political lyrics were once publicly silenced.

BY AFP

Affairs, Interview, Business

It’s time for the US to treat Myanmar fairly’

Frontier sits down with Eric Rose, lead director of Herzfeld Rubin Meyer & Rose, the first US law firm established in Myanmar.

BY Peter Janssen

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Fighting for peace in Muse, the KIA shoots itself in the foot

The surprise offensive by the Northern Brotherhood alliance in northern Shan State is a setback for the peace process and the cause of national reconciliation.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

News Feed, News

MPs lambast Yangon Region budget bill

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BY Su Myat Mon & Frontier

Opinion

Learning lessons, and looking for bright spots, after the US election

Four Myanmar women recently travelled to the US to witness the historic election there, and despite many criticisms of the campaign, still found many positives to be taken from the country’s political system.

BY Mindy Walker

Uncategorized

Daylight truck ban begins in Yangon, snarls Strand Rd traffic for 5 hours

A decision by the Yangon regional government to ban heavy trucks from the city’s streets during the day was blamed for a massive traffic jam on Strand Road yesterday.

BY Frontier

Affairs, Features

In northern Shan State, husbands and sons disappear

IDP camp residents say abductions and forced recruitment are increasing as the war between the Tatmadaw and ethnic armed groups grinds on.

BY Clare Hammond

Editorial, Opinion

Still searching for peace

There is a way for the State Counsellor to end the impasse that has led to yet more armed clashes in Myanmar's north.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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Why we’re back in print

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.

News Feed, News, Affairs

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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