Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.
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Rising demand, border closures and a depreciating kyat have sent prices of medicines soaring – and now pharmacies are closing as staff become infected with COVID-19.
BY Frontier
The National Unity Government’s plan to end discrimination against the Rohingya and replace the 1982 Citizenship Law could face opposition from among its own supporters – if the parallel government gets the chance to implement it.
BY Frontier
A network of hardline, pro-military groups known as Pyusawhti is doing its best to spread terror among the population as it fights a dirty war against the democratic forces resisting the coup.
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Ethnic armed groups have no incentive to sign the Myanmar government's ceasefire deal before the November elections.
BY Hans Hulst
Who will enforce the law?
Singapore drinks and property conglomerate Fraser and Neave says an assessment has valued its stake in Myanmar Brewery at US$560 million.
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Frontier speaks to John Sartain, managing director of Hospitality Resource Solutions.
BY Oliver Slow
Frontier speaks to Dr Anna Khin Khin Kyawt, founder of SAIL Advertising.
BY Hans Hulst
Dutch brewer Heineken has entered Myanmar’s increasingly competitive beer market, opening a US$60 million brewery in a joint venture with a domestic partner at Hmawbi, about 30 miles north of Yangon. Lester Tan, the managing director of the APB ABC joint venture, spoke to Frontier about the company’s plans for Myanmar and its strategy for challenging Myanmar Beer’s dominant share of the market.
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