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‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

Since health authorities introduced stay-at-home orders for Yangon in September, informal workers and small business owners have faced a grim struggle to make ends meet amid a lack of government assistance.

BY Htin Lynn Aung

magazine, News Feed, News, Business

‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

BY Htin Lynn Aung

News Feed, 2020 Election, Breaking News, News

Hard talk or hate speech? Outlet spreads disinformation and bigotry under guise of political commentary

The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.

BY Andrew Nachemson, Phone Htet Naung & Banyar Kyaw

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သာယာဝတီတွင် အမှုရင်ဆိုင်နေရသည့် ကျောင်းသား ကျောင်းသူများ လွတ်မြောက်လာ

ကျန်ရှိသည့် ကျောင်းသူကျောင်းသူများ၊ နိုင်ငံရေး အကျဉ်းသားများနှင့် နိုင်ငံရေး တက်ကြွလှုပ်ရှားသူများ ဆက်လက်လွတ်မြောက်လာရေးကို နှစ်သစ်ကူး ရုံးပိတ်ရက်များအပြီးတွင် ဆက်လက် ဆောင်ရွက်မည်ဟု ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်က ကြေညာ

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ကနေဒါက အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ရှစ်သန်း စတင်ထောက်ပံ့မည်

သမ္မတဦးထင်ကျော် ဦးဆောင်သည့် အစိုးရသစ်လက်ထက်တွင် ကနေဒါက ပထမဆုံး ပေးအပ်သည့် ထောက်ပံ့ကူညီမှုဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

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NLD pushes through special adviser role for Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s president has signed a bill giving Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military.

BY AFP

Interview

Cheery Zahau: 'I grew up with a very strong sense that something was wrong for the Chin people'

Chin human rights activist Cheery Zahau, 34, was born in Sagaing Region but spent most of her early life at Falam in the Chin Hills near the border with India. In 1999 she crossed the border and lived in India until 2009 when she moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand. She returned to Myanmar in 2012 and last year sought election to the Pyithu Hluttaw for the Chin Progressive Party, losing to a candidate from the National League for Democracy. Cheery Zahau spoke to Frontier about the Chin people’s hopes under an NLD government and the lessons she learned during the election campaign.

BY Oliver Slow

Features, Culture

Tough times for translators

The latest foreign fiction and non-fiction once kept translators busy and appreciated in Myanmar but the golden age of revered translators has long passed.

BY Thi Ri Han

Interview, Features

Cheery Zahau: ‘I grew up with a very strong sense that something was wrong for the Chin people’

Frontier speaks with Chin activist and Women’s League for Chinland founder Cheery Zahau on her time abroad and her plans for the future.

BY Oliver Slow

Photo Essays, Features

‘It’s a life-changing exam’

It’s been a gruelling few weeks for students sitting the all-important matriculation exam, regarded as a crucial step towards achieving a successful life and career.

BY Ann Wang

Affairs, Business

Fear and loathing at the exchange counter

There are three possible reasons why money changers are obsessively fussy about US dollar bills and one of them is more plausible than the others.

BY Joshua Carroll

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Myanmar feels the pain as COVID-19 hits key sectors hard

Doh Athan

Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

Doh Athan

Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

Doh Athan

Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

Doh Athan

Podcast: COVID Confusion

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Volume 6, Issue 12

October 22, 2020

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

Kyaw Myint is just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg of criminal activity in Myanmar’s business community, but as long as you steer clear of politics you’re unlikely to get caught.

magazine, News Feed, News

Myths, militias and the destruction of Loi Sam Sip

Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.

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