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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The leadership of the Arakan National Party has been accused of acting “like dictators” for refusing to allow some of its MPs to resign and contest the election for rival Rakhine parties.
BY Frontier
The film industry was dealing with a huge backlog of movies and questions about box office takings and tax evasion. Then came COVID-19.
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
When the military enters the business arena, it needs to play by the same rules as everyone else.
BY Frontier
Frontier reporter Kyaw Lin Htoon recalls his coming-of-age, and reflects on the worrying state of journalism today.
A lack of job opportunities in Mon State has turned some migrants to smugglers in order to cross back into Thailand illegally.
BY Lawi Weng
Myanmar needs to do much more to ensure responsible conduct by investors, and a National Action Plan could point the way forward.
BY Frontier
Legalising commercial farming of rare species will undercut poachers, says Myanmar’s Forest Department, but conservationists expect the move to lead to increased demand.
BY Hein Thar
Frustrated by a lack of reform, 11 activists are competing as independents in the election on behalf of workers and farmers.
BY Frontier
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