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‘We don’t have a choice’: Junta puts the squeeze on overseas workers

Under sanctions and desperate for hard currency, the military regime is forcing Myanmar workers abroad to remit earnings through formal channels, with some warning it will only push more migrants to become undocumented.

BY Frontier

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‘We don’t have a choice’: Junta puts the squeeze on overseas workers

BY Frontier

Editorial, Opinion

The Myanmar junta’s census heralds a totalitarian nightmare

The regime’s planned population count threatens to boost its powers of surveillance and leave dissidents with few places to hide.

BY Frontier

Features

Myanmar on brink of HIV treatment crisis

People living with HIV are finding it harder to access life-saving care due to civil war and a crumbling healthcare system, while also facing continued social stigma and discrimination.

BY Frontier

Highlights

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

Election 2015, Opinion

The NLD’s Rakhine issue ace

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Features

Being Chinese in Myanmar

A community under pressure sticks to itself and gets on with business.

BY Ann Wang

Interview, Business

TNS Myanmar's Jason Copland: 'I think most brands want to be here'

London-based market research company Taylor Nelson Sofres (TNS), opened its Yangon office in 2013. The general manager of TNS Myanmar, Jason Copland, spoke to Frontier about the company’s work in tracking changes in consumer behaviour and how companies are adapting to those changes.

BY Frontier

Affairs

Yangon's squatters living on borrowed time

Around 600,000 people, or 10 percent of Yangon's population, are believed to be squatting in Myanmar's commercial capital. Many now face eviction.

BY Noe Noe Aung

Affairs, Business

Fast food frenzy as first KFC outlet opens

KFC launches its first outlet in Myanmar and faces supply chain challenges.

BY Hans Hulst

Affairs

Magway's oil gamble

Diminishing returns are making the hard lives of artisan miners even harder in some areas of central Myanmar, where traditional methods of mining for oil have existed for centuries.

BY Yola Verbruggen

Photo Essays, Affairs

Yangon’s squatters living on borrowed time

Around 600,000 people, or 10 percent of Yangon's population, are believed to be squatting in Myanmar's commercial capital. Many now face eviction.

BY Noe Noe Aung

Interview, Business

TNS Myanmar’s Jason Copland: ‘I think most brands want to be here’

Jason Copland, general manager Myanmar office of market research firm TNS, spoke to Frontier about the company’s work in studying local consumer behaviour.

BY Frontier

Photo Essays, Affairs

Magway’s oil gamble

Diminishing returns are making the hard lives of artisan miners even harder in some areas of central Myanmar, where traditional methods of mining for oil have existed for centuries.

BY Yola Verbruggen

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The Myanmar junta’s census heralds a totalitarian nightmare

Opinion

From ‘a revolutionary hospital in the forest’: The diary of a frontline medic

Opinion

‘Who the f*** is Bill Richardson?’: Frontier’s Danny Fenster pays tribute

Opinion

It’s time to re-think the CDM

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Political prisoners struggle to rebuild lives after their release

Doh Athan

Kayah medical teams risking their lives to save lives

Doh Athan

The LGBTIQ community fights for respect and inclusion in the opposition movement

Doh Athan

Rohingya Tragedy: Six years in the camps

Opinion

Editorial, Opinion

The Myanmar junta’s census heralds a totalitarian nightmare

Opinion

From ‘a revolutionary hospital in the forest’: The diary of a frontline medic

Opinion

‘Who the f*** is Bill Richardson?’: Frontier’s Danny Fenster pays tribute

Opinion

It’s time to re-think the CDM

Doh Athan

Political prisoners struggle to rebuild lives after their release

Doh Athan

Kayah medical teams risking their lives to save lives

Doh Athan

The LGBTIQ community fights for respect and inclusion in the opposition movement

Doh Athan

Rohingya Tragedy: Six years in the camps

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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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