Sagaing Region residents equipped with single-shot traditional rifles known as “tumi guns” – and in some cases more modern weaponry – are resisting security forces’ attempts to crush anti-coup protests.
BY Frontier
Sagaing Region residents equipped with single-shot traditional rifles known as “tumi guns” – and in some cases more modern weaponry – are resisting security forces’ attempts to crush anti-coup protests.
BY Frontier
As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.
BY Frontier
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Culture and a lack of resources may be masking the true scale of mental health problems during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Young Men’s Buddhist Association promised to end its involvement in politics, but there are signs it might be changing its mind.
BY Hein Thar
For years, residents of a conflict-blighted area of Shan State had ‘kept their anger inside’, but after the Tatmadaw gunned down a farmer, more than 10,000 villagers marched in protest.
It’s taking over newspaper columns, Facebook feeds and teashop chatter: Myanmar’s November 8 election has quite clearly replaced the COVID-19 pandemic as the national obsession.
BY Frontier
The British linguist first set foot in Myanmar in 1960 and trained generations of Burmese language students.
BY Luke Corbin
Thirty solar projects received more than 150 bids, many from Chinese companies.
BY Thomas Kean
Public exchanges between the US and Chinese embassies in Yangon have echoes from the Cold War that test Myanmar’s neutralist stance.
Millions of the nation’s most vulnerable families are receiving cash handouts totalling K40,000 to alleviate the impact of COVID-19, but some appear to be falling through the cracks.
BY Frontier
Several thousand protesters marched in southeast Myanmar to demand the military's withdrawal from the area and an end to rights abuses.
BY AFP
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