Mobile money agents and informal brokers have been meeting the demand for cash at a time when banks are severely limiting withdrawals, but some accuse them of profiteering by charging steep fees.
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Mobile money agents and informal brokers have been meeting the demand for cash at a time when banks are severely limiting withdrawals, but some accuse them of profiteering by charging steep fees.
BY Frontier
When the killing of defiant protesters began in Myanmar earlier this year, it prompted an evacuee from Beijing after Tiananmen to recall a sign in a Hong Kong jewellery shop 32 years ago.
Many who continue to work under the junta oppose the coup but are kept in their jobs by fear, family obligations and a belief they can do more good within the system than out on strike.
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Is the attraction of living in a colonial apartment worth the sometimes exorbitant cost?
BY Stuart Deed
A widespread belief in spirits and the supernatural in Myanmar is keeping members of a sect busy bringing comfort to the possessed without causing physical pain.
BY Htun Khaing
There’s only one road to the capital of the remote Naga Self-Administered Zone, where transport costs impose a heavy burden on residents of one of the country’s poorest and least-developed areas.
BY Nan Tin Htwe
Frontier speaks again to Andy Hall, the founder of the Migrant Worker Rights Network until recently working with migrant workers in Thailand.
BY Oliver Slow
As the market cools for condominiums, office space and hotel rooms, industrial land is shaping up as the next big thing – but for foreign buyers it’s a complex market that needs to be treated with caution.
Frontier speaks again to Andy Hall, the founder of the Migrant Worker Rights Network until recently working with migrant workers in Thailand.
BY Oliver Slow
This article originally appeared in Property Insight, a Frontier special report on the Myanmar property market, on December 15.
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Drilling down the numbers on residential, hotel and office space across Yangon.
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