INTERVIEW | Thai academic Dr Lalita Hanwong, who specialises in Myanmar affairs, talks to Frontier about how the new governments in Thailand and Myanmar might approach their diplomatic relations.
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OPINION | The regime’s policies of capping withdrawals from the country’s banks are eroding public trust in the sector and undoing the progress made during the previous decade, argues Myo Lwin Oo.
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Thousands of civilians forced to flee fighting between regime and resistance forces in Mandalay Region are now sheltering in the forests of Sagaing Region, with little prospect of safely returning home anytime soon.
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This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, regime releases election results, military appointees are assigned to parliament, and expert Jason Tower discusses resistance infighting and how the China-scam nexus affects regime politics.
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Many methamphetamine users were forced to quit when war cut off supplies to Rakhine State, but as narcotics flood the market again, residents are asking how the Arakan Army will keep the pills off the streets.
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Women who have suffered health problems and other complications from cosmetic procedures are sounding the alarm about practitioners who use slick advertising on social media while hiding their lack of training.
Frontier’s owner responds to allegations made by Myanmar Now that he is engaging with the junta.
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Riverside communities in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region worry that gold mining, approved by forces aligned with the National Unity Government, will destroy their agricultural land, poison the water and attract attacks from the junta.
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VIDEO | In the Myanmar border town of Mawdaung, seized last year by resistance forces led by the Karen National Union, residents struggle to survive as junta blockades and a closed Thai border leaves them on the brink.
Stymied by airstrikes, travel bans and school closures, students and teachers in Myanmar’s westernmost state are uncertain of what the future holds for education under Arakan Army control.
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Farmers in Ayeyarwady Region face mounting debts and threats to their livelihoods as black bean prices plummet due to a combination of decreased international demand and the junta’s mismanagement of the economy.
AFP | Myanmar’s junta announced a new office advising the president on Wednesday, a role which may allow the military chief to formally embed his power over the incoming civilian government.
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The imminent termination of Temporary Protected Status leaves 4,000 Myanmar nationals in the United States facing the possibility of deportation to their war-ravaged country.
As the military regime presses ahead with its poll, young voters describe being coerced into voting through fear, family pressure and restrictive laws.
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Chinese-run copper mines in Myanmar’s Sagaing Region have become a focal point of fighting between the military and anti-junta resistance forces, while local residents bear the brunt of the regime’s indiscriminate brutality.
OPINION | Can the Myanmar junta navigate its way in a nascent new world order, with great powers like China and the United States asserting their control over their “areas of influence”? By Guy Dinmore.
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The number of MBA programmes offered through private schools in Myanmar has grown in the past decade, but many are not recognised by international institutions – a deficiency that is usually not mentioned in their advertising.
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Pressure from China has forced ethnic armies in Shan State to stop supplying arms to resistance groups in Myanmar’s central Dry Zone, leading to scarcity of guns and ammunition among PDFs struggling to hold ground against the military.
DOH ATHAN | Myanmar’s regime claims its election, starting on December 28, will be free and fair, and will lead to peace and democracy, but it is contradicting these assurances by arresting people who criticise the poll.
AFP | A Myanmar military airstrike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of an election beginning this month.
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Myanmar’s regime is hunting down those who oppose its upcoming election by using a law criminalising any criticism of the poll, detaining and handing long jail sentences to a wide array of people, from film stars to ordinary citizens.
DOH ATHAN | As the junta prepares its election, scheduled to be held in phases starting on December 28, Yangon residents speak to Doh Athan about their fears and anxieties, as well as their scepticism about a poll few believe can solve Myanmar’s problems.
Our editor-in-chief Thu Thu Aung discusses with Reuters Institute for the study of Journalism the future of Frontier and its viability at a time of crisis for independent exile media.
The war between the Arakan Army and the military in Rakhine, and crippling trade blockades imposed by the junta, have destroyed the state’s economy, causing many of its inhabitants to beg in the streets to feed themselves and their families.
Bangladesh has abandoned plans to send more Rohingya to Bhasan Char, a low-lying silt island in the Bay of Bengal, ending what aid workers say was an ill-conceived bid for a solution to the refugee crisis.
The Myanmar military’s raid on KK Park resulted in thousands of arrests and confiscation of illegal equipment, but analysts say the operation was an empty spectacle by the junta to create the impression it was cracking down on the scam industry.
The Rohingya camps in Cox’s Bazar are succumbing to an environmental nightmare of deforestation, landslides, flooding and fires – exacerbated by cuts in international aid that have halted most efforts to mitigate the effects of such disasters.
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