Volume 5, Issue 25

February 6, 2020

Volume 5, Issue 25

Puma’s jet fuel debacle

A highly profitable but controversial aviation fuel joint venture has been operating without land lease agreements for four years, drawing scrutiny from lawmakers and the Auditor General’s Office.

BY Kyaw Ye Lynn

Editorial, Opinion

For a president in campaign mode, Myanmar is an easy target

On January 31, United States President Donald Trump announced visa restrictions for nationals of six countries, including Myanmar, ostensibly aimed at protecting the US from public safety threats.

BY Frontier

News Feed, News

ICOE staffer embroiled in conflict of interest controversy

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BY Lun Min Mang & Andrew Nachemson

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

Broken dreams: the closure of the president’s scholarship programme

Hundreds of students were left disappointed when the National League for Democracy government shut down a multi-million-dollar international scholarship programme set up to great fanfare in 2014.

BY Eaint Thet Su

News Feed, News, Affairs, Features

The disease burden on the Thai-Myanmar border

Debilitating mosquito-borne diseases pose an increasing threat to migrant workers and refugees just across the border in Thailand, where clinics running on dwindling foreign aid struggle to meet needs.

BY Laure Siegel

News, Affairs, Business, Features

Government regulations put the brakes on cattle exports

Exports of animal products have risen dramatically since the government lifted a ban on the export of live cattle and buffalo in October 2017, but new regulations have taken some of the shine off the trade.

BY Kyaw Lin Htoon

Photo Essays, News, Affairs, Features, Culture

The birds and birdwatchers of Indawgyi Lake

Indawgyi Lake in Kachin State is a wintering season stop-over for thousands of migratory birds and is enchanting an increasing number of bird lovers.

BY Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Slim pickings for Xi in Myanmar visit

Continued mistrust of China – including from the Tatmadaw – ensured that there was little significant progress during President Xi Jinping’s recent visit to Myanmar.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

Chin National Day: collateral damage

Formerly banned by the military, Chin National Day has been proudly celebrated since a bilateral ceasefire was signed in 2012, but efforts to observe it this year in southern Chin State have been thwarted by armed conflict.

BY Salai Za Uk Ling

News Feed, News, Affairs, Business, Features

Proxy land deals flourish near DKBA headquarters

Brokers acting as proxies for Chinese and Thai companies are buying large tracts of farmland around a village in Kayin State where the Democratic Karen Benevolent Army has its headquarters.

BY Naw Betty Han