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Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

A boycott launched in the wake of the February 1 coup has caused sales of Myanmar Beer to plummet – and may even have wiped US$1 billion off the value of its military-linked parent company.

BY Frontier

Uncategorized, News Feed, Bizfeed, News, Business

Coup hangover: How Myanmar’s national brew went stale overnight

A boycott launched in the wake of the February 1 coup has caused sales of Myanmar Beer to plummet – and may even have wiped US$1 billion off the value of its military-linked parent company.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, News, Features

The ‘Tumi Revolution’: Protesters fight back in Sagaing Region

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

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‘We will never kneel down’: Protesters change tactics in face of rising death toll

As the military brazenly guns down its own citizens in ever-larger numbers, activists are finding new ways to resist.

BY Frontier

Highlights

News Feed, News

Vitriol in cyberspace for celebrities who stayed silent

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Ko Kaung Htet, right, on a reporting trip with the Restoration Council of Shan State in 2016. (Sai Zaw Theik)

Missing in action: Stories of conflict

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ကနေဒါက အမေရိကန်ဒေါ်လာ ရှစ်သန်း စတင်ထောက်ပံ့မည်

သမ္မတဦးထင်ကျော် ဦးဆောင်သည့် အစိုးရသစ်လက်ထက်တွင် ကနေဒါက ပထမဆုံး ပေးအပ်သည့် ထောက်ပံ့ကူညီမှုဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

Uncategorized

NLD pushes through special adviser role for Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s president has signed a bill giving Daw Aung San Suu Kyi a new role of state adviser, shoring up her influence across all branches of government despite vehement opposition from the still-powerful military.

BY AFP

Interview

Cheery Zahau: 'I grew up with a very strong sense that something was wrong for the Chin people'

Chin human rights activist Cheery Zahau, 34, was born in Sagaing Region but spent most of her early life at Falam in the Chin Hills near the border with India. In 1999 she crossed the border and lived in India until 2009 when she moved to Chiang Mai, Thailand. She returned to Myanmar in 2012 and last year sought election to the Pyithu Hluttaw for the Chin Progressive Party, losing to a candidate from the National League for Democracy. Cheery Zahau spoke to Frontier about the Chin people’s hopes under an NLD government and the lessons she learned during the election campaign.

BY Oliver Slow

Features, Culture

Tough times for translators

The latest foreign fiction and non-fiction once kept translators busy and appreciated in Myanmar but the golden age of revered translators has long passed.

BY Thi Ri Han

Interview, Features

Cheery Zahau: ‘I grew up with a very strong sense that something was wrong for the Chin people’

Frontier speaks with Chin activist and Women’s League for Chinland founder Cheery Zahau on her time abroad and her plans for the future.

BY Oliver Slow

Editorial, Opinion

A dedication

Thousands died during the struggle for democracy and many continue to die on battlefields throughout the country. They should be remembered.

BY Frontier & Frontier

Photo Essays, Features

‘It’s a life-changing exam’

It’s been a gruelling few weeks for students sitting the all-important matriculation exam, regarded as a crucial step towards achieving a successful life and career.

BY Ann Wang

Affairs, Business

Fear and loathing at the exchange counter

There are three possible reasons why money changers are obsessively fussy about US dollar bills and one of them is more plausible than the others.

BY Joshua Carroll

News Feed

ပြဿ နာများကို နှစ်နိုင်ငံ ချစ်ကြည်မှုဖြင့် ဖြေရှင်းမည်ဟု တရုတ် နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဝန်ကြီး ပြောကြား

မစ္စတာဝမ်ရီသည် သမ္မတဦးထင်ကျော် ဦးဆောင်သည့် အစိုးရသစ် တက်လာပြီးနောက် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံသို့ ပထမဆုံး လာရောက်သည့် နိုင်ငံခြားရေး ဝန်ကြီးတစ်ဦး ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

How the CDM can win

Doh Athan

Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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Podcast: Displaced again

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

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Podcast: Death in detention

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Podcast: Rescue workers targeted

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Podcast: Displaced again

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Video: Myanmar Youth Speak Out

Latest Issue

Volume 6, Issue 18

January 27, 2021

Stories in this issue

Editorial, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with more friends than foes

The early delivery of vaccines is one of the many boons of the country’s geopolitics, but to really take advantage, Myanmar must bury the legacy of its isolationist past.

News Feed, News

Will the Kayin BGF go quietly?

The Kayin State Border Guard Force has come under intense pressure from the Tatmadaw over its extensive, controversial business interests and there’s concern the ultimatum could trigger fresh hostilities in one of the country’s most war-torn areas.

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