Frontier Myanmar

Frontier Myanmar is a weekly magazine published in English. We provide an impartial perspective on the changing landscape of Myanmar. Each week, we keep you informed and engaged with a review of the latest news in current events and business, delivering valuable insights and analysis.

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‘Ready to fight’: Mon on the march

1 month ago | frontiermyanmar.net | Andrew Nachemson

By ANDREW NACHEMSON | FRONTIERHeadlight beams slashed through the dark as a caravan of barely functional motorbikes whined and sputtered up a dirt road carved into the side of a mountain. I clung tightly to the rear grab bars of one of the motorbikes as my driver swerved to avoid trees suddenly leaping into focus, at times careening dangerously close to the abyss gaping beyond the edge of the road.
Final crackdown? Thailand moves against Myanmar cyber scam centres

1 month ago | frontiermyanmar.net | Matthew Brunwasser

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER | FRONTIERHaving long tolerated and even facilitated cyber scam centres exploiting thousands of trafficked foreigners just across its border with Myanmar, Thailand is reacting to domestic and international pressure to demonstrate it is serious about shutting them down. A stream of top-level officials from Thailand and China has visited the Thai town of Mae Sot, across the border from Kayin State’s Myawaddy Township over the last month.
Q&A: ‘We have to focus on the structure of organised crime’, says Thai MP Rangsiman Rome

2 months ago | frontiermyanmar.net | Matthew Brunwasser

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER | FRONTIERLast weekend, Thai opposition parliamentarian Mr Rangsiman Rome led a delegation to Mae Sot in Tak province to investigate the impact of Thailand’s crackdown on scam centres operating across the border in Myanmar’s Kayin State. Deputy leader of the People’s Party, Rangsiman serves as chair of the Parliamentary Committee on National Security, Border Affairs, National Strategy, and National Reform.
‘America first’ in action: Trump’s aid freeze erodes an already anemic response to Myanmar crisis

2 months ago | frontiermyanmar.net | Matthew Brunwasser

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER | FRONTIER More than a week has passed since United States President Donald Trump issued an executive order immediately freezing all international aid pending a 90-day review. Since then, humanitarian organisations working on Myanmar have been scrambling to grasp the repercussions of the sudden edict. “It’s pandemonium,” said an aid worker who requested anonymity due to the sensitivity of the issue.
Troubled waters: Bangladeshi fishermen rocked by Rakhine war

Nov 27, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Matthew Brunwasser

By MATTHEW BRUNWASSER | FRONTIERThe six boats were fishing last month in Bangladeshi waters, close to the maritime boundary in the Bay of Bengal, when a Myanmar warship appeared about a kilometre away. Fearful of the Myanmar navy’s reputation for violence and aggression – including several recent attacks on Bangladeshi fishing boats – they immediately withdrew their nets and began motoring back towards the Teknaf peninsula. But it was too late.
Plains of war: Into the Kalay fray

Oct 24, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Ivan Ogilvie

By IVAN OGILVIE | FRONTIERThe change in mood was as abrupt as the ending of the Chin mountains, which fell suddenly into the flat rice paddies of Sagaing Region. It was February 6. I’d just spent two weeks in the relative safety of Chin State, where the rugged terrain provided some protection, but now I was heading down to the volatile flatlands of Sagaing to meet with more resistance groups.
Myanmar’s census is a blunt counterinsurgency tool

Oct 1, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Mary Callahan

OPINIONBy MARY CALLAHAN | FRONTIERA nationwide census is happening at a time when Myanmar is increasingly fragmented and destitute, and when authorities in Nay Pyi Taw have never been so out of touch, reckless and perverse. Following the failure of two earlier population counts, in January 2022 and January 2023, the junta is undertaking what is, on paper, a more robust attempt from October 1-15.
‘A global monster’: Myanmar-based cyber scams widen the net

Aug 23, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Emily Fishbein

By EMILY FISHBEIN | FRONTIERThis article was supported by the Pulitzer Center and is part of a series of articles about human trafficking into the cyber-scamming industry in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup. In 2022, Sara responded to an online ad for customer service workers in Thailand, accepting a job after two video interviews over Skype. “They had an address; they had a telephone number … it looked legit,” she said. “The salary was market-related.
‘Our only chance at freedom’: Inside the northern Chin resistance

Jul 11, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Ivan Ogilvie

By IVAN OGILVIE | FRONTIERZike was among the hundreds of thousands of people across Myanmar who quit their government jobs and joined the Civil Disobedience Movement, a mass strike in opposition to the 2021 coup. A public school teacher in Chin State’s Tedim Township, Zike’s name soon appeared on the military junta’s wanted list.
‘Killing the weeds’: Village warfare in Myingyan

Jul 2, 2024 | frontiermyanmar.net | Hein Thar

By HEIN THAR | FRONTIERKo Tin was so exhausted from staying up late to fill out paperwork that he slept through the sound of explosions that roused the rest of the town. When he went out for his morning walk, he noticed people gathering at a pagoda on a hilltop, from where they were watching a plume of smoke rising about two miles away. “Some village was burned down this morning,” someone in the crowd explained to him when he reached the top.