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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.

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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

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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

News, Affairs

Mixed reaction to new ethnic ministry

The decision to create a Ministry of Ethnic Affairs has been welcomed by many but some worry it will reduce the influence of ethnic MPs in the Union Parliament.

BY Mratt Kyaw Thu & Soe Than Lynn

Editorial, Opinion

The NLD’s poor record on media engagement

The NLD's recent attitude towards the media flies in the face of the party's claim it will usher in a new era of government transparency.

BY Frontier & Frontier

News

New government to face challenges for economic progress: ADB

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BY Sann Oo

News Feed

သမ္မတအထက်ကို ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည် ရောက်သွားတော့မှာလား

အဆိုပါ ဥပဒေအား ပြဌာန်းပြီးပါက ဒေါ်အောင်ဆန်းစုကြည်သည် အစိုးရအဖွဲ့အား တာဝန်ခံ ဦးဆောင်နိုင်မည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Soe Than Lynn

News Feed, Breaking News, News

Htin Kyaw sworn in as new president on historic day

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BY AFP

Features, Culture

Critical connections

Speakers at a TEDx event in Yangon that symbolised the hope for a better future make a powerful impression with recollections of the nation’s troubled past.

BY Sean Gleeson

News Feed

ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်မှ သမ္မတကတော် နှုတ်ထွက်

ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော် ကိုယ်စားလှယ်အဖြစ်မှ နှုတ်ထွက်ကာ Frist Lady အဖြစ်သာ နေထိုင်သွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier & Soe Than Lynn

News Feed

သမ္မတ၏ အဆောင်အယောင် ရွှေစလွယ်ကို သမ္မတသစ် ဦးထင်ကျော်ထံ ဦးသိန်းစိန်က လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်

သမ္မတသစ်ဦးထင်ကျော်ထံ သမ္မတဦးသိန်းစိန်က နိုင်ငံတော်သမ္မအ၏ တာဝန်များနှင့်လုပ်ပိုင်ခွင့်များ လွှဲပြောင်းပေးအပ်

BY Frontier

News Feed

ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေ ပြင်ဆင်ရေး ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဟု သမ္မတသစ် ဦးထင်ကျော်က ပထမဆုံး မိန့်ခွန်းတွင် ပြောကြား

အစိုးရသစ်အနေဖြင့် အမျိုးသားရင်ကြားစေ့ရေး၊ ပြည်တွင်းငြိမ်းချမ်းရေး၊ ဒီမိုကရေစီဖက်ဒရယ် ပြည်ထောင်စု ဖြစ်ပေါ်ရေးကို ရှေးရှုသည့် ဖွဲ့စည်းပုံအခြေခံဥပဒေတစ်ခု ပေါ်ပေါက်ရေးနှင့် ပြည်သူလူထုအများစု၏ လူနေမှုအဆင့်အတန်း တိုးတက် မြင့်မားလာရေးတို့အား အကောင်အထည်ဖော် ဆောင်ရွက်သွားမည်ဟု ပြောကြား

BY Frontier

How the CDM can win

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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

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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

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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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