Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
BY Frontier
Conditions in Myanmar’s jails are dire for all inmates, but human rights organisations say political prisoners suffer more abuses – including medical neglect that often has deadly consequences.
BY Frontier
Young people and their families are seeking any way they can to evade the Myanmar military’s conscription drive – sometimes with the help of sympathetic local administrators.
BY Frontier
The United States claimed it foiled a plot by an alleged Yakuza boss to sell weapons-grade plutonium sourced by an ethnic armed group in Myanmar, but experts say the story doesn’t add up.
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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.
BY Frontier
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
Singapore-based Hospitality Resource Solutions Pte Ltd specialises in helping Myanmar living in the city-state to return home and find work. HRS managing director John Sartain, a former general manager of the Pun Hlaing Golf Estate, told Frontier there’s been strong demand for the job-placement service since it was launched in early 2013.
BY Oliver Slow
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.
BY Oliver Slow
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