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Inside Myanmar | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. Trash for cash: Yangon's freelance garbage collectors. Yangon’s freelance garbage collectors are cleaning up dirty streets, but there’s a suspicion some of them may be part of the problem. Striking a blow for equality. Behind the scenes training for Myanmar's homespun martial art of Lethwei, a sport that encourages head-butting and grants victory by knockout only. Keeping ancient traditions alive in Myanmar puppetry. Cartoonists and the freedom to satirise. 50th St Star City.
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Bizfeed | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. Yoma Strategic moves to create first SGX company to focus on Myanmar tourism. Yoma Strategic Holdings Ltd has unveiled plans to spin-off its tourism-related businesses through a reverse takeover in Singapore. Myanmar improves ranking in annual World Bank report. Improvements to Myanmar’s regulatory environment have helped it to move up one place on the World Bank’s annual Doing Business report. Amata group secures IFC loan for hotels at Bagan, Inle Lake. Demand for affordable accomm...
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Key Leaders | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. Canadian Ambassador: ‘Myanmar is an exciting place to be a young person’. Canada’s outgoing ambassador to Myanmar Mark McDowell on his decision to leave the foreign service and why young people should ‘go with their gut’. Myanma Awba CEO: 'Crop prices are the major issue’. Frontier talks agriculture and business with U Thadoe Hein, the chief executive of Myanma Awba Group. Competition needs to remain rational’. Ooredoo chief: 'The rural part of Myanmar is still untapped'. Frontier s...
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Interview | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. UN aid chief: 'It's absolutely vital that we maintain the supply lines'. Mr Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Frontier following his tour of Kachin and Rakhine states. Trials and tribulations touring socialist Burma. U Sonny Aung Khin on his five decades in the tourism industry, including 16 years in Bangkok sending curious foreign visitors to socialist-era Burma. Myanma Awba CEO: 'Crop prices are the major issue’. Fronti...
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Video | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. What is Frontier Myanmar? A video introduction to Frontier, Myanmar's newest print publication. UN aid chief: 'It's absolutely vital that we maintain the supply lines'. Attacks raise stakes for Daw Suu in Rakhine State. NLD member latest arrested under Telecommunications Law. Reporter’s sacking followed MoI phone call, sparking press freedom fears. Close by-elections race looms in Shan State. In-depth coverage of news, business and current events in Myanmar, in stores every Thursday.
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Culture | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. In the Sokayeti song contest, an out of tune nation-building project. Myanmar's national performing arts competition was less about the arts than forging a new concept of 'national identity' one in which ethnic minorities were given only a token place. Chicken bones and brass rings. A renowned author is pioneering inclusive tourism within the Kayan community of remote Kayah State through an internationally funded project. Politics fouls football as MNL teams mull future. The arrival...
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Features | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. UN aid chief: 'It's absolutely vital that we maintain the supply lines'. Mr Stephen O’Brien, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, speaks to Frontier following his tour of Kachin and Rakhine states. Reporter’s sacking followed MoI phone call, sparking press freedom fears. A foreign journalist at the Myanmar Times was dismissed after the Ministry of Information complained about her coverage of alleged human rights abuses in Rakhine State. Off-limits to ...
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Food | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. Winemakers in the hills. Two commercial vineyards in the Shan Hills have become popular tourist attractions as they strive to create a wine culture in Myanmar. A lucrative hybrid seed trade is sprouting in Myanmar, thanks to a growing farm sector and relaxed visa regulations. Legacy Thai: The best Thai in town? Yangon gets first authentic German restaurant, minus the beer. UN aid chief: 'It's absolutely vital that we maintain the supply lines'. 50th St Star City.
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News Feed | Frontier Myanmar
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Skip to main content. NLD member latest arrested under Telecommunications Law. National League for Democracy member U Myo Yan Naung Thein has become the latest person to be arrested under an act used to prosecute 'defamatory' social media posts. Prevention efforts step up after Zika case in Yangon. Health authorities in Yangon have been carrying out Zika prevention efforts following the discovery of the country’s first case of the mosquito-borne virus. Japan announces nearly $8bn for Myanmar development.
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