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Too little, too late: Thailand belatedly tightens border security after COVID-19 outbreak

Informal migration from Myanmar is being blamed for the recent resurgence of COVID-19 that has left Thailand in lockdown and prompted Thai authorities to step up security along the 2,400-kilometre frontier.

BY Lawi Weng

Uncategorized, News

Too little, too late: Thailand belatedly tightens border security after COVID-19 outbreak

BY Lawi Weng

News Feed

Giant blaze leaves thousands homeless in Rohingya camp

A fire tore through a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on Thursday, leaving no casualties but destroying more than 550 shanty homes.

BY AFP

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

We're not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.

BY Frontier

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

The Dawei Chaung dump in Yangon's North Dagon Township is seen on December 15, 2020. (Hkun Lat | Frontier)

Plastic and the pandemic

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

Affairs, Business, Features

Treasury bond auctions: A step in the right direction

The launch of treasury bond auctions by the government is a move toward more efficient public debt management that should result in lower inflation.

BY Jakob Krembzow

Affairs, Features

Substitute justice

Police are allowing criminals to avoid prison by substituting others in their place, in a practice that observers say is undermining the integrity of the justice system and efforts to combat organised crime.

BY Hein Ko Soe

News Feed, News

Tiger parts trade at Mong La tripled in 8 years, says watchdog

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BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed

မောင်တောတွင် နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေးကို တပ်မတော်က အရှိန်မြှင့် ဆောင်ရွက်နေ

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်၊ မောင်တောမြို့သို့ ယနေ့ မွန်းတည့် ၁၂ နာရီခန့်က စတင်ကာ တပ်မတော်သားများ ရောက်ရှိလာပြီး နယ်မြေရှင်းလင်းရေး လုပ်ငန်းများကို အရှိန်မြှင့်တင် စတင်ဆောင်ရွက်နေပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Party politics and the Rakhine State commission

A statement by 11 political parties calling for the dissolution of the Rakhine State Advisory Commission has elicited dismay and regret from Daw Aung San Suu Kyi.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Breaking News, News

Militants kill nine police, seize weapons in Maungdaw

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BY Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed

မောင်တော တိုက်ခိုက်မှု၌ ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင် ကိုးဦးသေဆုံး၊ ခရိုင်တစ်ခုလုံး ညမထွက်ရအချိန် တိုးမြှင့်

မောင်တောမြို့တွင် ယနေ့ နံနက်က ဖြစ်ပွားခဲ့သည့် နယ်ခြားစောင့်ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့နှင့် အကြမ်းဖက် အဖွဲ့အစည်းတို့အကြား တိုက်ခိုက်မှုအတွင်း ရဲတပ်ဖွဲ့ဝင်ကိုးဦး သေဆုံးခဲ့ပြီးနောက် မောင်တောခရိုင်တခုလုံးအတွင်း ညမထွက်ရအချိန်ကို ယခင်ကထက် တင်းကြပ်လိုက်ပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Frontier & Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed, Breaking News

မောင်တော နယ်ခြားစောင့်တပ် လက်နက်တိုက် လုယက်ခံရ၊ ရဲနှစ်ဦးသေဆုံး

လက်နက်တိုက်မှ လက်နက်မျိုးစုံ ၁၂၀ လက်ခန့်ကိုလည်း လာရောက်တိုက်ခိုက်သူများက ယူဆောင်သွားသည်ဟု သိရသည်။

BY Frontier & Mratt Kyaw Thu

Affairs, Business, Features

Doing well by doing good

Many Myanmar companies are re-branding by giving back, but it will take more than philanthropy to leave the past behind.

BY Jared Downing

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

News Feed, 2020 Election, Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Fresh vote unlikely soon in Rakhine, but Japan’s Sasakawa deserves praise

News Feed, News, Opinion

Give the people more parks

Doh Athan

Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

Doh Athan

Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

Doh Athan

Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

Doh Athan

Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

Doh Athan

Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

Doh Athan

Podcast: Untold stories of slavery

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

We’re not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.

News Feed, News, Affairs

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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