The March 28 earthquake rattled Myanmar’s fledgling insurance industry, with companies that offered quake coverage now ...

Mastering control of the rising and falling rattan chinlone ball teaches patience, says a veteran of the traditional Myanmar ...

The regional bloc is confronting Myanmar with a mixture of immobilism and wishful thinking, while other actors intervene more ...

After fleeing conflict in their native Rakhine State, members of the Kaman Muslim minority group are facing work and housing ...

Akbar's niece is among more than 40 Rohingya alleged by the UN, family and lawyers to have been forced off an Indian navy ...

“Most of the workers have debts,” said Zaw Zaw Aung, who estimates that more than half of Kyauk Sein’s 1,300 workers owe money. The factory eventually reopened on May 2, much to the relief of its ...

Despite rising financial pressures to supply weapons and provide public services in its territory, the KIO cancelled a major business deal in response to protests from local communities trying to ...

Since launching in 2015, Frontier Myanmar has provided its readers balanced, in-depth reporting and insights from the ground to help them make sense of what’s happening in Myanmar. With a focus on ...

Some powerful ethnic armed groups are increasingly throwing their weight behind Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, seemingly defying China and other allies to take on the military. A pickup truck with ...

Desperate migrant workers are increasingly heading for the Golden Triangle SEZ in Laos, whose illicit economy has apparent links to Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed group. While travellers pass ...

The United League of Arakan is advancing steadily towards its objective of assuming administrative control in Rakhine State, and has seen a high level of compliance from the state’s residents with the ...

On any given day, the Thai side of the Moei River is bustling with traders loading hundreds of boxes onto small boats or rafts that cross the narrow stretch of water to Myanmar’s southeastern Kayin ...