Volume 6, Issue 9

September 8, 2020

Volume 6, Issue 9

For Muslim communities with deep roots in Myanmar, the right to vote hangs in the balance

2020 Election, Features

Who gets to vote?

For Muslim communities in rural Mandalay Region, the right to vote is at the mercy of exclusionary laws and a bureaucracy steeped in discrimination.

BY Pyae Sone Aung & Andrew Nachemson

Editorial, Opinion

Defaming democracy

If the government really wants to introduce a fair framework for defamation, it needs to overhaul or replace all six related laws.

BY Frontier

Features

Fear and dread as classes cancelled in northern Shan

The delayed reopening of monastic boarding schools has parents in conflict-affected areas in dread and fear for their children’s lives.

BY Hein Thar

Features

Experimental plasma treatment saves eight severe COVID-19 patients

Months before the US allowed the use of convalescent plasma in emergency COVID-19 care, Myanmar had already provided the treatment to eight patients.

BY Frontier

2020 Election, Features

Shan IDPs hope for post-election homecoming

People displaced in northern Shan State are hoping that the November 8 election will be their last in the camps they would rather not be calling home.

BY Hein Thar

2020 Election, Features

‘We are ready to govern our state’

Frontier’s Kaung Hset Naing talks to the vice-chair of the Arakan Front Party about the election, and the Rakhine party’s dream of self-determination.

BY Kaung Hset Naing & Andrew Nachemson

Business, Features

The scrap over Loikaw’s industrial zone

The fast-tracking of a Chinese company’s proposal to invest tens of millions in the Kayah State capital has angered activists, politicians and armed groups.

BY Htin Lynn Aung, Ei Ei Toe Lwin & Andrew Nachemson

Sithu Aung Myint, Opinion

Bringing the Rohingya home

Rohingya will continue to languish in camps in Bangladesh until there is a change of attitude by key stakeholders, including the Tatmadaw and Dhaka.

BY Sithu Aung Myint

Opinion

After Panglong, talks must focus on security

In an effort to reach a deal before the election, negotiators have neglected one of the most important issues in the peace process.

BY Aung Naing Oo

Opinion

Building new lives far from home

An American immigration lawyer writes about the challenges faced by asylum seekers and refugees from Myanmar in Battle Creek, Michigan.

BY Maia Justine Storm

Features, Culture

One man’s quest to bring slacklining to Myanmar

In 2016, Ko Ye Win Tun saw a man walk above the clouds on YouTube. Inspired by a professional slackliner, he now wants to popularise the sport in Myanmar.

BY Nyein Su Wai Kyaw Soe