Frontier Myanmar

This week on #WhatHappeningInMyanmar, ASEAN split on Myanmar, military offensives in Chin and Sagaing with conscripted troops;,rights abuses in Shan, death penalty proposed for scam centres, and PDFs ban Starlink. Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/regime-gain…

AFP | Myanmar’s regime published a parliamentary bill on Thursday proposing the death sentence for those who detain or violently coerce victims into working in online scam centres. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-re…

The stark reduction in international funding for Myanmar nonprofits since early last year has left legal aid and advocacy groups with huge budget gaps, reducing their capacity to conduct their work and making their future uncertain. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/funding-woe…

AFP | Myanmar’s junta moved deposed leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi to house arrest last week but that was not enough to ease deep divisions among ASEAN leaders over how best to engage with the pariah state. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/tiny-shifts…

Rising fuel prices have sparked long lines at petrol stations and frustration for business owners and drivers, as transportation woes and commodity price increases strain households nationwide. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/running-on-…

OPINION | Since the coup, Min Aung Hlaing has wielded laws as weapons to enable the arbitrary arrest of tens of thousands of people opposing his rule, while using mass amnesties as a tool for political gain, argues Myo Lwin Oo. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/pardons-are…

In the war-torn western Myanmar state, small-scale distilleries are meeting a rising demand for cheap alcohol, but the spread of brewers is reducing profits while lack of regulation is sparking a health crisis. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/trouble-bre…

AFP | Myanmar campaigners denounced on Tuesday United States lobbyist Mr Roger Stone, a close confidante of President Donald Trump, for accepting US$50,000 a month to “rebuild” the Southeast Asian regime’s relations with Washington. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-act…

This edition of Political Insider looks at Myanmar’s political prospects after the recent adoption of civilian garb by the regime. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/reading-the…

AFP | At the leafy villa where Myanmar’s Daw Aung San Suu Kyi had spent years locked up, there were no signs on Friday it would become a renewed site of political pilgrimage as it did during her previous house arrest. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/house-arres…

OPINION | Nepali voters have turned politics upside down while Myanmar suffers continued dictatorship, but Nepal’s journey carries warnings as well as examples to follow, argues Ben Dunant. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/blind-spots…

The Myanmar military has razed dozens of villages in the Rakhine State township of Kyaupkphyu to make way for Chinese development projects, displacing tens of thousands and offering few benefits for the local population. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/displaced-f…

AFP | China and the regime have pledged to expand trade and security ties, especially along their border, during talks in the Southeast Asian nation with its junta chief-turned-president and both countries’ top diplomats. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/china-and-m…

Fleeing poverty and conflict at home, millions of Myanmar workers have migrated to Malaysia to work, but once there they face abuse from employers and persecution by the authorities. Read full story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/i-felt-mise…

The defection of Burma National Revolutionary Army leader Bo Nagar to the Myanmar junta sent shockwaves through the resistance, which is now striving to minimise internal schisms and continue its fight against the regime. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/after-the-f…

OPINION | The junta chief has become the president of a new – ostensibly civilian – government, but it is unlikely he will initiate any meaningful reform or negotiate with the resistance, argues Myo Lwin Oo. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/min-aung-hl…

One year after the devastating earthquake that struck central Myanmar on March 28, recovery remains hobbled by lack of international funding, inflation, civil war and other factors. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/just-surviv…

AFP | A Rohingya rights campaigner spearheading a genocide complaint filed in Indonesia against Myanmar’s next president urged the Muslim world on Wednesday to oppose the junta accused of the abuses. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/rohingya-ca…

The arrests in India of seven foreigners accused of crossing into Myanmar to help resistance groups has raised fresh concerns about security along the rugged, porous border between the two countries. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/borderline-…

This edition of Political Insider looks at the conflict between Three Brotherhood Alliance members the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army and the Ta’ang National Liberation Army in northern Shan State. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/brotherhood…