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Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News Feed, Uncategorized, Travel, Culture

Wild Waters: Yangon Region

For the 11th installment in our series on wild swimming spots, our intrepid reporter – locked down by the COVID-19 pandemic – explores some possibilities closer to home.

BY Dominic Horner

News

Air pollution: The other invisible menace

While COVID-19 gets all the attention, air pollution contributes to far more deaths each year in Myanmar and a recent joint study has helped shed light on the sources of this pollution in Yangon.

BY Kirt A. Page

News Feed, 2020 Election, News

Votes for the boys: How soldiers delivered USDP victories in ethnic states

Though soldiers cast ballots outside their bases for the first time in the November election, the military vote enabled the Union Solidarity and Development Party to clinch rare victories in borderland constituencies.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Ben Dunant

Tanintharyi Region’s boring election

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In this Myanmar American News video, Go Shal Lay – whose real name is U Aung Naing Htwe – claims that President U Win Myint is a Chinese citizen and pledges to reveal the president's corruption. (Frontier)

YouTube: Myanmar’s new disinformation frontier

Childhood denied: A reporter reflects

Children peer out from a doorway at the Yellow Generation Wave Monastery in Yangon Region. (Steve Tickner | Frontier)

Single mothers left with few good options

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

News Feed, News

Maldives gets Amal Clooney to fight for Rohingya at UN court

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BY AFP

Features

ဦးတီခွန်မြတ်အတွက် ခက်ခဲသောနေ့ရက်များ

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ခမ်းနားထည်ဝါလှသောခန်းမကြီးထဲ၌ ရွှေရောင်တဖိတ်ဖိတ်တောက်နေသော “ကျိုင်း” ကိုရှေ့တွင်ထားကာ ရွှေပိန်းချထားသောထိုင်ခုံထက်တွင် ရွှေရောင်အနားကွတ်ဖိုးဖဲကတ္တီပါဝတ်စုံဖြင့် ထိုင်ပြီးတိုင်းရေးပြည်ရာများကိုဆောင်ရွက်ရသည်မှာ နိုင်ငံရေးသမားများမက်ချင်သောအိမ်မက်တစ်ခုဖြစ်သည်။

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

Podcast: Disabled women surviving sexual assault

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

A plea for Kachin unity, as dispute creates rift

A long-running dispute over ethnic identification has created a rift within the diverse Kachin community and has prompted a prominent leader to issue an appeal for unity.

BY Frontier

News, Affairs, Business, Features

အစိုးရစည်းမျဉ်းများကြောင့် မြန်မာ့ကျွဲနွားတင်ပို့မှု ထိခိုက်ခဲ့ရ

၂၀၁၇ ခုနှစ် အောက်တိုဘာတွင် အစိုးရက ကျွဲနွားအရှင်တင်ပို့မှုအပေါ် ပိတ်ပင်ချက်ကို ရုပ်သိမ်းခဲ့ပြီးနောက် ကျွဲနွားတင်ပို့မှုပမာဏ မြင့်တက်ခဲ့သော်လည်း စည်းမျဉ်းသစ်များချမှတ်မှုကြောင့် ကျွဲနွားအရှင် တင်ပို့မှုလုပ်ငန်း ထိခိုက်ခဲ့ရပြီဖြစ်သည်။

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

A clouded future for e-cigarettes in Myanmar

The law is vague on the status of vaping in Myanmar, and the Ministry of Health and Sports may ban e-cigarettes before changes can be made to the relevant legislation.

BY Ye Mon & Eaint Thet Su

Travel, Features, Culture

Wild waters: Kachin

The ninth instalment in our travel series about wild swimming spots takes us to Myanmar’s northernmost state, a land of ethnic diversity, impenetrable jungle and… tubing.

BY Dominic Horner

Backpage, Opinion

Listen to my wisdom, Myanmar and America

Well, Myanmar, we’ve had some good times, but it’s time for me to leave. Hear that, America? I’m finally coming back.

BY Jared Downing

News Feed, News

Podcast: Locals demand answers about Dawei SEZ

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BY Win Zar Ni Aung & Frontier

Opinion

Peace is broken in the Karen hills. How will donors respond?

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Could Min Aung Hlaing’s retirement break the political deadlock?

Editorial, Opinion

Why we’re back in print

News Feed, Editorial, News, Opinion

Myanmar enters 2021 with a rare opportunity to heal

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Podcast: Fate of migrant workers on hold

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Podcast: Unwanted pregnancies

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Podcast: Domestic violence in Tanintharyi Region

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Video: Child labour exposed in Yangon

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Volume 6, Issue 17

January 12, 2021

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We’re not betting on a print revival to ensure Frontier’s survival, but we believe print still has an important place in the media landscape.

News Feed, News, Affairs

The ultimate penalty: Debating the death sentence

Myanmar has not executed a convict for decades, though they continue to be put on death row. While some call for capital punishment to be scrapped, others are demanding it for child rapists.

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