Frontier travels to Paletwa in southern Chin State, a township isolated by fighting between the Tatmadaw and the Arakan Army and facing food shortages and growing tensions between the Khumi Chin and Rakhine communities.
In the two minutes it takes you to read this editorial, Myanmar will have had to repay another $500 on its debt for the Myingyan steel mill.
BY Frontier
The Myanmar and Japanese governments are working together to deliver clean, drinkable water to millions of Yangon residents and end groundwater use, but the city’s poorest households may miss out on the benefits.
Karen National Union general-secretary Saw Ta Doh Moo speaks to Frontier about recent clashes in Kayin State, Tatmadaw intransigence and the National League for Democracy government’s handling of the peace process.
Members of the Pyidaungsu Hluttaw are preparing to vote on a series of amendments to the constitution but it is unlikely that any of them will be approved.
Despite new democratic freedoms, a tendency towards conformity in Myanmar politics and society is destined to reproduce autocracy.
Goodbye and thanks to the team who kept publishing me, even when I was writing from the perspective of an anthropomorphised pair of elephant pants.
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