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The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

Rushed land deals and a push for quick delivery characterise a solar tender in which Chinese companies were involved in winning bids for all but one site.

Business, Features

The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

Rushed land deals and a push for quick delivery characterise a solar tender in which Chinese companies were involved in winning bids for all but one site.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn & Thomas Kean

Editorial, Opinion

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Daw Aung San Suu Kyi’s election address through state media doesn’t just present Myanmar and its government, perversely, as the real victims of the Rohingya crisis, it also contradicts what she is trying to tell the rest of the world.

BY Frontier

Features

Shan IDPs hope for post-election homecoming

People displaced in northern Shan State are hoping that the November 8 election will be their last in the camps they would rather not be calling home.

BY Hein Thar

Ko Nyi Nyi: A driven man

Time is a precious commodity for Ko Nyi Nyi, the executive committee chairman of the National League for Democracy’s branch in Yangon’s outer South Dagon Township.

BY Hans Hulst & Frontier

Affairs, Features

Hard times again for human rights defenders

Despite far-reaching political reforms in recent years, Myanmar's human rights activists are once again feeling the sharp end of the stick as the 2015 election looms.

BY Oliver Slow

Culture

The fraternity of ‘the Bridge’

A Myanmar Skate Association team heads to Malaysia later this month to compete in an international competition for the first time.

BY Jared Downing

Bizfeed, Business

Transparency urged for Yangon New City Project tenders

The tendering process for a massive housing development known as the Yangon New City Project must be transparent, say members of parliament, business people and economists.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs

Reforming Myanmar's bureaucracy

Although Myanmar’s recent economic and political transformation has garnered much more attention, bubbling under the surface have been changes to the country’s administrative processes.

BY Oliver Slow

Affairs

Reforming Myanmar’s bureaucracy

Although Myanmar’s recent economic and political transformation has garnered much more attention, bubbling under the surface have been changes to the country’s administrative processes.

BY Oliver Slow

News Feed, News

Speaker recall bid dismissed by parliament secretary

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Business

Agents upbeat on post-election real estate recovery

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BY Frontier & Frontier

Affairs, Business

Myanmar’s dairy industry: The next cash cow?

Most dairy products in Myanmar are imported, and most local dairy operations are small-scale, but that could soon change.

BY Alex Bookbinder

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 10

September 22, 2020

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Editorial, Opinion

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

magazine, 2020 Election, Features

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

Buddhist nationalism and a focus on rural voters helped the USDP retain a rare stronghold in southern Mandalay Region, but cracks are emerging ahead of this year’s vote.

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The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

The scramble for solar: Inside 2020’s most controversial tender

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Shan IDPs hope for post-election homecoming

Highlights

Yangon scrambles to treat, isolate wave of COVID-19 patients

Building new lives far from home

Who gets to vote?

Bringing the Rohingya home

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Ko Nyi Nyi: A driven man

Hard times again for human rights defenders

The fraternity of ‘the Bridge’

Transparency urged for Yangon New City Project tenders

Reforming Myanmar's bureaucracy

Reforming Myanmar’s bureaucracy

Speaker recall bid dismissed by parliament secretary

Agents upbeat on post-election real estate recovery

Myanmar’s dairy industry: The next cash cow?

Opinion

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Building new lives far from home

Easy rider

Bringing the Rohingya home

Doh Athan

A minor’s tale

Podcast: Young people with disabilities face difficulties finding work in Chin State

Podcast: Fruit farmers hit by plummeting prices and travel restrictions in Mon

After the jade mine collapse

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 10

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

Highlights

Consider being a Frontier Member.

Opinion

Doh Athan

Latest Issue

Ahead of the vote, it’s still ‘Myanmar vs the world’

Keeping the faith: Can the USDP retain its Dry Zone stronghold?

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