Interview

Many workers brought to criminal hubs in Southeast Asia have no idea what they’re getting themselves into, but some are seeking a payday despite the risks. Frontier spoke to two workers – one in online gambling the other in online scams – about their daily lives, working conditions and what brought them to Shwe Kokko.
UNODC has been working with Myanmar on anti-corruption activities since 2012 but has significantly scaled up its work this year with additional funding from Sweden. A major focus is ensuring Myanmar’s compliance with the UN Convention Against Corruption. Country manager Mr Troels Vester tells Frontier’s Thomas Kean about the need for the government to turn words into actions and the under-resourcing of the Anti-Corruption Commission.
အိုင်ယာလန်နိုင်ငံ၏ နိုင်ငံခြားရေးဌာနတွင် အချိန်ကြာမြင့်စွာ လုပ်ကိုင်ခဲ့အပြီးတွင် မစ္စတာ ဘရက်ဒန် ရောဂျားစ် Mr Bredan Rogers သည် ၂၀၁၄ ခုနှစ်တွင် ထိုင်းနှင့် မြန်မာနိုင်ငံတို့၏ သံအမတ် ဖြစ်လာခဲ့သည်။ ၂၀၁၆ ခုနှစ် ဧပြီလတွင် သမ္မတ ဦးထင်ကျော်ထံ သံအမတ်ခန့်အပ်လွှာ ပေးအပ်ခဲ့သည်။
Ooredoo is set to launch its mobile money platform M-Pitesan next month after recently receiving a mobile financial services licence. Acting chief executive officer Mr Vikram Sinha tells Frontier’s Thomas Kean about what users can expect, the importance of interoperability with other mobile money provider and how the company plans to roll out the service.

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