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Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families

In the economic downturn following the coup, a growing number of women have turned to sex work, where they struggle for income and face assault and extortion by criminal gangs.

BY Frontier

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Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families

In the economic downturn following the coup, a growing number of women have turned to sex work, where they struggle for income and face assault and extortion by criminal gangs.

BY Frontier

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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

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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

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

Bizfeed, Business

MPT unveils partnership with Japan’s LINE

Myanmar Posts and Telecommunications has unveiled a partnership with LINE, a Japan-based application offering free chat and voice calls with more than 600 million users.

BY Frontier

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UMEHL backs down in $560m brewery dispute

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BY Frontier & Frontier

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Drama at USDP headquarters linked to presidential race

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BY Soe Than Lynn

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Yanghee Lee calls on govt to reconsider 'fear' of critics

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BY Frontier

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Yanghee Lee calls on govt to reconsider ‘fear’ of critics

Senior United Nations offcial Yanghee Lee has issued a pre-election appeal to the government to “reconsider its fear and opposition to critical and independent voices”.

BY Frontier

Opinion

An interpreter’s burden

It can be challenging for an interpreter of English to Myanmar to ensure that nothing is lost in translation.

BY Khaing Tun

Affairs, Features

The poppies and the damage done

Opium production is causing severe environmental degradation in northern Shan State, but a crop substitution project in the south is a reason for hope.

BY Niels Larsen

Culture

The fraternity of ‘the Bridge’

A Myanmar Skate Association team heads to Malaysia later this month to compete in an international competition for the first time.

BY Jared Downing

Photo Essays, Affairs, Election 2015

Ko Nyi Nyi: A driven man

Time is a precious commodity for Ko Nyi Nyi, the executive committee chairman of the National League for Democracy’s branch in Yangon’s outer South Dagon Township.

BY Hans Hulst & Frontier

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

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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

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Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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Sagaing and Magway workers targeted

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

Doh Athan

Despite dangers, urban revolutionaries continue anti-coup protests

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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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Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families

Yangon sex workers risk violence to feed their families

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