Frontier co-founder Sonny Swe says he intends to step down as the company’s chief executive officer, after almost a decade in the role.
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Conflict and chaos in Myanmar’s Rakhine State have escalated the risks faced by Bangladeshis who are trying to eke out a living along the maritime border.
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Twelve people were killed when a Myanmar military plane carrying a senior monk and several donors to a religious event crashed in the Mandalay Region hill town.
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While boarding the plane that would fly him to Europe, Mratt Kyaw Thu felt safe for the first time since the February 1 military coup.
BY AFP
Small, independent groups are waging guerrilla warfare on the streets in an effort to undermine the military regime but the rising violence has some Yangon residents worried for their safety.
BY Frontier
Teachers in the Civil Disobedience Movement believe the recruitment of daily wage earners to teach in re-opened government schools will result in “fake education”.
BY Frontier
The ousted leader is facing an eclectic raft of charges, from possessing unlicensed walkie-talkies to flouting coronavirus restrictions during the election last year.
BY AFP
Mobile money agents and informal brokers have been meeting the demand for cash at a time when banks are severely limiting withdrawals, but some accuse them of profiteering by charging steep fees.
BY Frontier
Before he was killed, Khet Thi's poems railed eloquently against the coup, joining a deluge of protest verse celebrating democracy demonstrators and defying the military's brutal war on words.
BY AFP
Urban youth have travelled to ethnic armed group-controlled areas to be trained in making war against the Tatmadaw.
BY AFP
When the killing of defiant protesters began in Myanmar earlier this year, it prompted an evacuee from Beijing after Tiananmen to recall a sign in a Hong Kong jewellery shop 32 years ago.
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