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.
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An international troupe that includes trapeze artists, acrobats and jugglers is enchanting Yangon audiences with traditional and contemporary circus performances rarely seen in Myanmar.
BY Su Myat Mon
On the centenary of King Thibaw’s death in lonely exile in India, his descendants are ramping up a campaign to have his remains returned to Mandalay, the last royal capital.
BY Oliver Slow
Members of the two biggest opposition parties say rulings by the NLD's Union Parliament speakers are muzzling debate on important national issues.
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Before foreign banks are allowed to offer more services, Myanmar needs to enact reforms that make its domestic banks more competitive and encourage them to extend more credit to the private sector.
Traders are right to feel aggrieved given the many snap policy changes since 2011, many of which have often left them worse off.
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Fear, rumours and the sound of fighting accompanied Frontier on a precarious journey through the battle zone in northeastern Shan State.
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