Frontier Myanmar

Nine years after the brutal military operations in Myanmar’s northern Rakhine State, Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh mark another Eid in exile, caught between unfulfilled promises and an uncertain future. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/eid-far-fro…

AFP | More than 500 Myanmar resistance fighters surrendered to the junta, the military said Thursday, with Agence France-Presse journalists witnessing a disarming ceremony that one resistance faction suggested was a propaganda stunt. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-jun…

AFP | Indian investigators have arrested seven foreigners on suspicion of illegally crossing into neighbouring Myanmar to train armed resistance groups, an Indian public radio broadcaster reported on Tuesday. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/seven-forei…

OPINION | New legislation from the United States ostensibly aimed at putting pressure on the junta is strong in rhetoric but offers few effective tools to support the democratic opposition, argues David Scott Mathieson. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-sa…

DOH ATHAN | We talked to a young volunteer medic in Sagaing Region who has treated people under constant threat of airstrikes. Despite loss, fear and hardship, she is determined to serve on the frontlines of Myanmar’s revolution. Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/under-fire-…

AFP | Myanmar’s parliament is set to convene Monday for the first time since a military coup five years ago, packed with pro-junta lawmakers elected in a poll orchestrated by the top brass. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmars-po…

AFP | Myanmar’s spiralling rights and humanitarian crises risk getting “much worse” as global attention focuses on the Middle East war and aid dwindles further, a top United Nations expert on the Asian country warned. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/mideast-war…

Recent announcements that the regime plans to resume the massive Myitsone dam project in Kachin State, 15 years after it was suspended, are raising alarms among residents and environmentalists. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/stabbing-th…

AFP | Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Thailand have become collateral damage from the civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, turning to drugs as supply through the area rockets on the back of the conflict. Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-civ…

OPINION | Recent calls for the British government to sanction the Rakhine armed group are misguided and, if heeded, could damage efforts to establish a common resistance front against the regime, argues David Scott Mathieson. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/is-sanction…

AFP | Aspiring students are lamenting Britain’s ban on education visas for their war-weary countries – dashing dreams of bettering themselves and their home nations. Read full story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-afg…

This week on our podcast #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar, rumours abound about appointments as parliament convenes this month, and three members of the MyCClimate project discuss the nexus between climate change and conflict in Myanmar. Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-climate…

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. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-dismant…

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. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/qa-you-dont…

AFP | Snaking queues of vehicles waited in Myanmar for shrivelling petrol supplies on Wednesday, with some gas stations shuttered as fuel stocks dried up due to the war in the Middle East. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-dri…

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. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/down-and-ou…

AFP | Myanmar’s military junta granted amnesty on Monday to more than 7,000 prisoners convicted of financing or sheltering a “terrorist group”, a designation it has used to outlaw pro-democracy factions opposing its rule. Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-gra…

OPINION | The conflict between the Arakan Army and the Myanmar regime has littered Rakhine State with landmines and unexploded ordnance, adding to the misery of a civilian population coping with war and economic collapse. By Aung Marn Oo. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/war-is-turn…

AFP | Top United States Democrats condemned immigration authorities Thursday after a Rohingya refugee from Myanmar was found dead following his release from detention, piling pressure on President Donald Trump’s hardline policies. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/us-immigrat…

AFP | A Myanmar military air strike on a village market in the country’s westernmost state killed at least 17 people, two local sources said on Wednesday. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanmar-jun…