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‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

Since health authorities introduced stay-at-home orders for Yangon in September, informal workers and small business owners have faced a grim struggle to make ends meet amid a lack of government assistance.

BY Htin Lynn Aung

magazine, News Feed, News, Business

‘I can’t just sit and watch my family starve’: Yangon’s lockdown pushes informal workers to breaking point

BY Htin Lynn Aung

News Feed, 2020 Election, Breaking News, News

Hard talk or hate speech? Outlet spreads disinformation and bigotry under guise of political commentary

The Myanmar Hard Talk Facebook page took advantage of the grey area between outright disinformation and legitimate political commentary to spread a nationalist, pro-military agenda.

BY Andrew Nachemson, Phone Htet Naung & Banyar Kyaw

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Sneezing monkey and ‘Dracula’ fish among new Myanmar species found

A sneezing monkey and a 'Dracula' fish are two species recently discovered in Myanmar, according to a report released by the World Wildlife Fund.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Election 2015, Features

The bag of tricks

With election day drawing near the ruling Union Solidarity and Development Party is using every trick in the book to avoid a humiliating defeat. Frontier counted at least ten nasty tactics for manipulating the vote outcome.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs, Interview, Election 2015

U Sai Thiha Kyaw: 'There are some MPs who don’t work hard, they just sleep’

U Sai Thiha Kyaw holds the Pyithu Hluttaw seat of Mongyai Township in northern Shan State for the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy. He spoke to Frontier about his hopes of contributing to self-determination in Shan State.

BY Oliver Slow

News, Affairs

Myanmar’s radical Buddhists target Muslim businesses, with official help

Since late 2013, a campaign supported by Ma Ba Tha has forced dozens of Muslim-owned slaughterhouses and beef-processing facilities across the Ayeyarwady Region to shut down.

BY Myanmar Now

Affairs, Interview, Election 2015

U Sai Thiha Kyaw: ‘There are some MPs who don’t work hard, they just sleep’

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs, Interview

Ko Ko Gyi: 'The best way forward is a national government’

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BY Hans Hulst

News, Affairs

Always reliably late on the Yangon Circle Line

A $250m upgrade funded by the Japanese government is good news for commuters, who have long been waiting for better service on the Yangon Circle Line railway.

BY Frontier & Mratt Kyaw Thu

News Feed

UN rapporteur calls on govt to reconsider ‘fear’ of critics, activists

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BY Frontier & Frontier

News Feed, News

'Joint Peace Fund' to bolster peace negotiations

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BY Alex Bookbinder

Opinion

2020 Election, News, Opinion

The NLD needs to re-think its assumptions about land

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

News Feed, 2020 Election, Opinion

Political violence a threat to Myanmar’s election

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Myanmar feels the pain as COVID-19 hits key sectors hard

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Podcast: rape and domestic violence rise amid the pandemic

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Podcast: Chin State communities afraid to vote

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Podcast: Tamu man says he and grandson beaten, tortured by police

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Podcast: COVID Confusion

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Volume 6, Issue 12

October 22, 2020

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What Kyaw Myint’s downfall tells us about doing business in Myanmar

Kyaw Myint is just the tiniest tip of a very large iceberg of criminal activity in Myanmar’s business community, but as long as you steer clear of politics you’re unlikely to get caught.

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Myths, militias and the destruction of Loi Sam Sip

Activists in northern Shan State have been fighting for years to protect a culturally and environmentally important mountain range but face opposition from Tatmadaw-aligned militias – and a company linked to the speaker of Myanmar’s national parliament.

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