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The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

The people’s grief and their right to closure

Former BBC journalist Christopher Gunness played a key role in sparking the 1988 uprising, and hopes that those bearing mental and physical wounds inflicted under junta rule will eventually be able to find closure.

By Oliver Slow

John Okell: Remembering a ‘gentle giant’ of Burmese teaching

The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.

By Luke Corbin

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Talk of a post-election “coalition” misrepresents Myanmar’s winner-takes-all electoral system and gives false hope that minority interests can be meaningfully represented without constitutional reform.

By Ben Dunant

Highlights

Desperate and debt-ridden, Mon migrants risk journey back to Thailand

‘We won’t retreat’: Muslim candidates prepare for election battle

Travel, News, Business, Features

The Kokang casino dream

The mystery man behind the Shwe Kokko project

Dinner with the princess of Burma

For the first time in 76 years, the only surviving granddaughter of King Thibaw spoke recently in public in Yangon, where her family has been living quietly since 1919.

By Jared Downing

Maung Maung Ohn: 'Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again'

Former general and deputy minister for Home Affairs, U Maung Maung Ohn, was appointed Chief Minister of Rakhine State in 2014, replacing U Hla Maung. Although the Arakan National Party won a majority of seats in the Rakhine assembly last November, the National League for Democracy appointed as chief minister, the chair of its state branch, U Nyi Pu, an ethnic Rakhine.

By Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, News

President pardons 83 political prisoners

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By AFP

Interview, Features

Maung Maung Ohn: ‘Conflicts like 2012 should never happen again’

Frontier sits down with U Maung Maung Ohn, the former Rakhine chief minister, to discuss ethnic conflict and insurgency in the troubled state.

By Mratt Kyaw Thu

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ ဘယ်ဘက် မျက်လုံး ခွဲစိတ်ကုသမှု အောင်မြင်

အထူးကုဆရာဝန်ကြီးများ၏ အကြံပြုချက်အရ ခွဲစိတ်ပြီးနောက် မျက်လုံးအား ရက်အနည်းငယ် အနားပေးရမည် ဖြစ်သည်

By Frontier

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်၏ မျက်လုံးခွဲစိတ်ထားမှု အခြေအနေ ကောင်းမွန်

ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် ဧပြီ ၁၄ ရက်နေ့၊ မွန်းလွဲပိုင်းတွင် ရုံးတက်ကာ အရေးကြီး ကိစ္စများ ဆောင်ရွက်ခဲ့သည်

By Frontier

တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးတွင် သြင်္ကန်ရေကစားမဏ္ဍပ် ၅၀၀ ခန့်ရှိမည်

ရန်ကုန်တွင် မဏ္ဍပ်အကြီး၊ အလတ်နှင့် အသေး စုစုပေါင်း ၂၀၀ ကျော်ရှိမည်ဖြစ်သည်

By Frontier

ယာဉ်အန္တရာယ် ကင်းဝေးရေး လှုပ်ရှားမှု ဆောင်ရွက်နေ

ပညာပေးအစီအစဉ်များကို ရေဒီယိုတွင် ထုတ်လွှင့်မည့်အပြင် အခြား အစီအစဉ်များကိုလည်း ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

By Frontier

ကလေးနှစ်ဦးအပါအဝင် နိုင်ငံရေးနှင့် ဆက်နွယ်ပြီး အမှုရင်ဆိုင်နေရသူ ၁၃၈ ဦးအား အမှုရုပ်သိမ်းကာ ပြန်လွှတ်ပေး

ပြန်လည် လွတ်မြောက်လာသူများထဲတွင် ၈၈ မျိုးဆက် ပွင့်လင်း လူ့အဖွဲ့အစည်းမှ မမီးမီး၊ မနီလာသိန်းတို့လည်း ပါဝင်သည်

By Frontier

Opinion

John Okell: Remembering a ‘gentle giant’ of Burmese teaching

The US, China and the ‘tender gourd’

The myth of ‘coalition government’

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

Doh Athan

Podcast: No way home for Myanmar workers in Malaysia

Doh Athan, Video

Video: Tailor’s troubles, a disabled worker’s story

Podcast: Shortages in quarantine

Podcast: Copper mine raises questions in Sagaing

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 6

July 27, 2020

Stories in this issue

Out of the wild: Myanmar’s controversial plan to harvest endangered species

Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.

Editorial, Opinion

The military’s business is all of our business

When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.

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