Frontier Myanmar

21/12/2024

This week on Frontier's new podcast, Frontier fellow Ramona Drosner discusses her reporting on mental health and drug abuse treatment in Myanmar and Su Mon of conflict monitoring group ACLED reviews the progress made this year in the post-coup war.

With Ramona Drosner, Swiss journalist who completed a fellowship at Frontier, and Su Mon, Senior Analyst for the Asia-Pacific at the Armed Location and Event Data Project. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the Western Regional Military Command has fallen to the Arakan Army, mental health a...

21/12/2024

ကချင်လွတ်လပ်ရေးတပ်မတော် (ကေအိုင်အေ)သည် မကြာသေးမီက ထိုးစစ်ကြီးတစ်ရပ်ကို ဖော်ဆောင်ခဲ့ပြီး ကချင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း မြေရှားသတ္တုထွက်ရှိရာ ဒေသကြီးတစ်ခုလုံးကို သိမ်းပိုက်လိုက်သည်။ အမြတ်အစွန်းများသည့်တိုင် သဘာဝပတ်ဝန်းကျင်ကို လွန်စွာ ထိခိုက်ညစ်ညမ်းစေသည့် မြေရှားသတ္တုလုပ်ငန်းကို ကေအိုင်အိုက မည်သို့ စီမံခန့်ခွဲသွားမည် ဆိုသည်မှာ ရှင်းရှင်းလင်းလင်း မရှိပေ။

မြေရှားသတ္တုတူးဖော်သည့် ဒေသကြီးတစ်ခုလုံးကို ကေအိုင်အေက သိမ်းပိုက်လိုက်ပြီးနောက် ထိုလုပ်ငန်းများ၏ အနာဂတ်....

19/12/2024

The drug epidemic caused by conflict and lawlessness in Myanmar after the 2021 coup has crossed the border to Thailand, with more refugees uprooted from their homes and families falling into addiction than ever.

18/12/2024

Members of the former ruling party have followed different paths since the 2021 coup, with some lying low but others taking up arms, while the continued imprisonment and recent deaths of party leaders raise questions about its future.

16/12/2024

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | What risks would you take to support your family? Domestic workers are often extremely vulnerable because they work behind closed doors. Even more so when they are thousands of miles away from home with no support system.

What risks would you take to support your family? Domestic workers are often extremely vulnerable because their work is behind closed doors. Even more so when they are thousands of miles away from home without a support system.

14/12/2024

Myanmar is steeped in trauma from past and present conflict and dictatorial rule – but with the breakdown of already meagre public health infrastructure since the coup, communities themselves are acquiring the tools to tackle the mental toll.

Myanmar is steeped in trauma from past and present conflict and dictatorial rule – but with the breakdown of already meagre public healthcare infrastructure since the 2021 coup, communities themselves are acquiring the tools to tackle the mental toll.

14/12/2024

This week on Frontier's new podcast, Hafsar Tameesuddin of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network and Zaw Win of Fortify Rights discuss the situation either side of the Bangladesh border in Rakhine State and the plight of the Rohingya.

Show notes: With Zaw Win, Human Rights Specialist at Fortify Rights, and Hafsar Tameesuddin, Rohingya Activist and Co-Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Refugee Rights Network. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, Maungdaw falls under Arakan Army control and we discuss what happens to the ...

12/12/2024

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်း ဖြစ်ပွားနေသည့် ပဋိပက္ခများနှင့် ဖရိုဖရဲအခြေအနေများကြောင့် နှစ်နိုင်ငံအကြား ပင်လယ်ရေကြောင်း နယ်နိမိတ်တစ်လျှောက် ငါးဖမ်း၍ အသက်မွေးသည့် ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ် တံငါသည်တို့အတွက် အန္တရာယ်ပိုရှိလာသည်။

ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းက စစ်မီးကြောင့် မြန်မာ-ဘင်္ဂလားဒေ့ရှ်နယ်စပ်၊ နတ်ဖ်မြစ်တစ်လျှောက် ငါးဖမ်းသည့် တံငါသည်မ...

11/12/2024

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Frontier Myanmar is hiring a part-time editor to work two days a week on the award-winning Doh Athan human rights podcast and video series. More information via the link below:

Frontier Myanmar is growing and we’re looking for exceptional people to be part of one of Myanmar’s most respected media organisations. If you enjoy uncovering the truth, have a passion for telling stories and can work independently while being part of a small but dedicated team, then we’d lov...

10/12/2024

The Kachin Independence Organization has seized a swathe of mineral rich territory on Myanmar’s border with China, but the group now has the tough task of running an ethnically diverse area mired in poverty and the legacy of strongman rule.

09/12/2024

DOH ATHAN PODCAST | Imagine a battle broke out around you but you were unable to flee. That’s what happened to thousands of inmates of Lashio Prison during the resistance offensive in July. Some of them spoke to Doh Athan about their ordeal.

Imagine a battle broke out around you but you were unable to flee. That’s what happened to thousands of inmates of Lashio Prison during the resistance offensive in July. Some of them spoke to Doh Athan about their ordeal.

07/12/2024

This week on Frontier's new podcast, independent Chin analyst R. Lakher discusses the plight of Myanmar refugees in India's Mizoram state and divisions between anti-junta groups across the border in Chin State.

With R. Lakher, independent Chin analyst. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the MNDAA makes a (genuine?) sue for peace, and we discuss armed resistance politics in Chin and Rakhine states. Email the show at Timecodes: 1m07s :: Weekly news digest4m42s :: The lack of support for refugee...

06/12/2024

DOH ATHAN | December 26 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Indian ocean tsunami. Over 220,000 people were killed across 14 countries. In southern Thailand, Myanmar migrants were called “the forgotten victims” of that tragedy, but there are some still there who remember that day and miss those who were lost.

December 26 will mark the 20th anniversary of the Indian ocean tsunami. Over 220,000 people were killed across 14 countries. In southern Thailand, Myanmar migrants were called "the forgotten victims'" of that tragedy, but there are some still there who remember that day and miss those who were lost.

06/12/2024

EVENT: Please join us in Chiang Mai on Friday, December 13 at 6:30pm for a night of art and storytelling from The Kite Tales.

The Kite Tales was founded in 2016 by journalists Thin Lei Win and Kelly Macnamara to record the lives of ordinary Myanmar citizens. After the coup, the project established a fellowship to financially support several Myanmar journalists and illustrators, and to give them a place to anonymously share their thoughts, hopes and fears about life under military rule.

On Friday, at our Chiang Mai community space Greenhouse, Thin Lei Win will speak about the project and display 20 illustrations from it, along with QR linking directly to the personal stories and journal entries that inspired them.

“These Resistance Diaries are more vital than ever as international attention on Myanmar diminishes,” the founders write. “They offer a rare and poignant window into the personal and professional struggles faced by journalists and storytellers committed to exposing the military regime’s brutal abuses.”

This event is open to all, but Frontier members are encouraged to RSVP to [email protected] for a free drink ticket. Food and beverages will be available for purchase.

04/12/2024

Recent conflict has brought Myanmar’s biggest rare earth mining region under the control of the Kachin Independence Organization, yet it’s uncertain how it will handle the lucrative but environmentally devastating industry.

04/12/2024

အာရက္ခတပ်တော် (အေအေ)သည် မေလအတွင်းက ဘူးသီးတောင်မြို့နယ်ရှိ ရိုဟင်ဂျာများအပေါ် စစ်ရာဇဝတ်မှုများကျုးလွန်ခဲ့သည်ဟု ယုံကြည်ရလောက်သည့် သတင်းများ ထွက်ပေါ်လာခဲ့သည်။ သို့တိုင် အေအေတပ်ဖွဲ့က တော်လှန်ရေးအဖွဲ့အစည်းများနှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့အစည်းများအကြား ဝေဖန်သံများ ထွက်မလာအောင် နှုတ်ပိတ်နိုင်ခဲ့သည်။

ရခိုင်တွင် လူ့အခွင့်အရေးချိုးဖောက်ကြောင်း စွပ်စွဲခံရသောအခါ အေအေက တော်လှန်ရေးနှင့် အရပ်ဘက်အဖွဲ့များထံမှ ဝ...

04/12/2024

AFP | The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army has said it is ready for China-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.

The Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army has said it is ready for China-mediated talks with the junta to end more than a year of renewed fighting that has ravaged areas along the Chinese border.

03/12/2024

OPINION | Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers, argues R. Lakher.

Major shifts in national and state-level policies are needed to address the worsening situation of Myanmar refugees in India’s Mizoram state, alongside greater coordination by local humanitarian providers.