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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

In Sagaing Region, local people linked to resistance groups risk death to document the conflict, providing media outlets with a vital – if inevitably partisan – source of information from the ground.

BY Frontier

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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

BY Frontier

News Feed, News Feed, News, Features

ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?

The Southeast Asian bloc is considering stronger measures against the Myanmar military but a range of factors may preserve the unproductive status quo.

BY Frontier

Features

The gentle giants in service of the revolution

In the aftermath of the coup, many elephants were abandoned when their civil servant handlers went on strike. But in one of Myanmar's largest national parks, the revolution is also a reunion.

BY Frontier

Highlights

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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

Affairs, Features

Myanmar goes back to school

The Ministry of Education has embarked on an ambitious project to completely rebuild Myanmar's outmoded education system.

BY Jared Downing

Opinion

Transitional justice needed to heal old wounds

An attitude of letting bygones be bygones might be politically opportune, but it will not make the poignant issue of transitional justice go away.

BY Hans Hulst

Features, Culture

Abandoned distractions, uncertain futures in junta theme park

In a forgotten corner of Yangon, a theme park feted by the former junta now lies derelict, with its residents facing an uncertain future.

BY Joshua Carroll

Business

Myanmar's tycoons unfazed by NLD victory

Some of the nation’s tycoons have shrugged off concerns about the future of their business empires under a National League for Democracy government.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

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မြန်မာစပါးကြီးမြွေ ပါဝင်ထိုးသတ်မည့် ရန်ကုန်က အမ်အမ်အေပွဲ

ကိုယ်ခံပညာပေါင်းစုံ ပေါင်းစပ်ထိုးသတ်ရသည့် အဆိုပါ ပြိုင်ပွဲကို မတ် ၁၈ ရက်တွင် ရန်ကုန်မြို့၊ သုဝဏ္ဏအားကစားရုံတွင် ကျင်းပသွားမည်ဖြစ်သည်

BY Frontier

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လွှတ်တော်သစ်များ ဖေဖော်ဝါရီ ၁ ရက်စမည်

ရွေးကောက်ပွဲများတွင် အမျိုးသား ဒီမိုကရေစီအဖွဲ့အချုပ်က အမျိုးသားလွှတ်တော်အတွက် ၁၃၅ ဦး၊ ပြည်သူ့လွှတ်တော်အတွက် ၂၅၅ ဦး၊ စုစုပေါင်း ၃၉၀ ဦး အနိုင်ရရှိထား

BY Frontier

Affairs, Interview

Thant Myint-U: ‘Creating a shared identity is Myanmar’s top challenge’

Interview with Thant Myint-U, presidential adviser and Yangon Heritage Trust chair.

BY Frontier

Business, Features

Myanmar’s tycoons unfazed by NLD victory

Some of the nation’s tycoons have shrugged off concerns about the future of their business empires under a National League for Democracy government.

BY Kyaw Phone Kyaw

Affairs, Features

The terror attack and the thanban ban

The repercussions from a North Korean terror attack in Yangon more than 30 years ago continue to be felt in the commercial capital, depending on who you talk to.

BY Jacob Goldberg & Aye Min Soe

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The junta’s sexual assault victims will not be silent

Editorial, Opinion

An illegitimate junta can’t fix Myanmar’s broken economy

Opinion

‘Important time’: Frontier appoints new editor-in-chief

Opinion

Frontier calls for release of detained columnist

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

Doh Athan

‘I told him to be careful’: Death, displacement and despair in Kayin conflict

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

Doh Athan

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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Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

Bearing witness: The volunteers bringing news from the front line

ASEAN is frustrated by the junta, but how far is it willing to go?