Frontier Myanmar

08/10/2025

AFP | A Myanmar regime airstrike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee and a local committee member told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.

A Myanmar regime airstrike on a festival event and protest killed 40 people, including children, an attendee and a local committee member told Agence France-Presse on Tuesday.

07/10/2025

STATEMENT | Frontier has appointed Aung Htin Aung as new chief executive officer, to take over from founder Sonny Swe, who announced late last year he was stepping down after a decade at the helm.

Frontier has appointed a new chief executive officer to take over from founder Sonny Swe, who announced late last year he was stepping down after a decade at the helm.

03/10/2025

This week on Frontier’s podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, the military retakes Kyaukme, Min Aung Hlaing finishes his Central Asia visit as his air force kills dozens of civilians across the country, and author and Frontier digital editor Carlos Sardiña Galache talks through this week’s high-level UN conference on the Rohingya and Arakan Army leadership.

With Carlos Sardiña Galache, author and Frontier Myanmar digital editor. This week on episode 47 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military retakes Kyaukme, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing returns from Central Asia as his air force kills dozens of civilians across the country, and we discuss thi...

03/10/2025

Women in Myanmar’s central plains are unable to travel for work due to security concerns in the midst of civil war, and those who do work are struggling to support their families as they receive lower pay than men.

01/10/2025

AFP | A Rohingya refugee who fled a military onslaught in northern Rakhine State along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending over seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority.

A Rohingya refugee who fled a military onslaught in northern Rakhine State along with 750,000 others in 2017, spending over seven years in Bangladesh, described Tuesday the endless cycle of violence and exile facing the mostly Muslim minority.

30/09/2025

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Myanmar is facing severe economic challenges, with commodity prices surging and shortages occurring due to the junta’s closure of border crossings and air freight restrictions. Ordinary citizens and small-scale traders are struggling with rising costs and dwindling supplies.

Myanmar is facing severe economic challenges, with commodity prices surging and shortages occurring due to the junta's closure of border crossings and air freight restrictions. Ordinary citizens and small-scale traders are struggling with rising costs and dwindling supplies.

29/09/2025

Myanmar’s military razed Rohingya villages and farmland in northern Rakhine State in “a coordinated and organized operation” to strip the minority of land rights, a United Nations’ independent investigative body said.

Myanmar’s military razed Rohingya villages and farmland in northern Rakhine State in “a coordinated and organized operation” to strip the minority of land rights, a United Nations' independent investigative body said.

29/09/2025

AFP | Six Myanmar war widows speak softly of their grief as they walk inside the crumbling walls of Mandalay Palace, fresh arrivals in an earthquake-wracked city strained anew by conflict.

The junta has pledged elections beginning on December 28 and has touted them as a path to peace with its myriad adversaries – from ragtag pro-democracy partisans to semi-professional ethnic armed organisations.

27/09/2025

This week on our podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, resistance gains in Banmauk, a KIA training base is bombed, rights organisations lament Sweden’s development aid cessation, and Dustin Barter and Stella Naw discuss their new report on aid for the pluralistic state in Myanmar.

With Dustin Barter and Stella Naw, two co-authors of a new ODI report on humanitarianism and revolutionary state-building in Myanmar. This week on episode 46 of What’s Happening in Myanmar, the resistance takes Banmauk, a Kachin Independence Army camp is hit with a precision airstrike, rights orga...

26/09/2025

OPINION | As the world order disintegrates, the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar needs to innovate and forge international alliances with like-minded movements to defeat the regime, argues David Scott Mathieson.

As the world order disintegrates, the pro-democracy movement in Myanmar needs to innovate and forge international alliances with like-minded movements to defeat the regime.

24/09/2025

Abortion carries a strong social stigma and is illegal in Myanmar, pushing many women to seek it in Thailand or, for those who cannot afford travelling to the neighbouring country, the use of dangerous pills bought on TikTok.

24/09/2025

Attention all Frontier members.

Join us for an exclusive webinar on the complex array of issues affecting migrants and their families across the Thai-Myanmar border: what should be done to address them.

📅 Wednesday, October 1
🕔 7 PM (Thailand time)

As Frontier has reported, the post-coup situation in Myanmar has intensified labour exploitation and social protection challenges for migrants in Thailand, making their livelihoods more precarious. Meanwhile, the backdrop of heightened economic insecurity, labour struggles and political instability in Myanmar means that the lines between refugees, economic migrants and political exiles have become increasingly blurred.

To better understand these issues, Frontier will hold a virtual panel, "Enduring Struggles Across Borders: The Precarious Lives of Myanmar Migrants in Thailand"

This panel will be moderated by Khin Thazin, an MPhil Candidate at the University of Oxford.

She will be joined by:

Benjamin Harkins - International Labour Organization (Labour rights and policy)

Reiko Harima - Mekong Migration Network (Advocacy and research)

Ko Thiha - Young Chi Oo Workers' Association (Migrant worker organising)

The Chatham House Rule will apply.

This webinar is open exclusively to Frontier members, and is part of Frontier’s virtual event series which connects members with experts, and Frontier journalists, enabling participants to engage in high-level panel discussions.

We are building a community based around independent journalism in Myanmar. Join us: https://mailchi.mp/frontiermyanmar.net/members