Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
Volunteer networks and cross-border ethnic and family ties have ensured a refuge for thousands who’ve fled overland to India’s Mizoram state, but some long to return to Myanmar to rejoin the anti-coup struggle.
With an entire academic year already lost to the pandemic, the junta says schools will reopen on June 1, but teachers, students and their parents are refusing to attend or enroll in schools administered by generals and policed by soldiers.
BY Frontier
Customers are flooding branches and ATMs in an effort to withdraw funds, but with cash in short supply, the steady reopening of branches is only putting more pressure on struggling private banks.
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Fighting between the Tatmadaw, an ethnic Kayin Border Guard Force and a breakaway group from the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army has mostly subsided but the 4,000 people displaced are refusing to return home.
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BY Su Myat Mon
Repats have brought a global craze for board games to Myanmar, and despite many hurdles they are growing in popularity in Yangon.
BY Justin Pun
You started Myanma Awba two decades ago, aged just 22, but you didn’t come from an agriculture background. Where did the inspiration come from?
BY Thomas Kean
The government hosted a series of events last month to mark Anti-Trafficking in Persons Day but has come under criticism for not doing enough to help rescued victims recover from their ordeals.
BY Hein Ko Soe
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Frontier talks agriculture and business with U Thadoe Hein, the chief executive of Myanma Awba Group.
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