A Myanmar-Chinese community has long thrived in Taiwan but shifts in the island’s national identity has made emigrating more difficult, even as people are more desperate than ever to leave Myanmar.
BY Frontier
For the first time in 76 years, the only surviving granddaughter of King Thibaw spoke recently in public in Yangon, where her family has been living quietly since 1919.
Frontier sits down with U Maung Maung Ohn, the former Rakhine chief minister, to discuss ethnic conflict and insurgency in the troubled state.
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