A sprawling new mine is gouged into the lush rolling hills of northeast Myanmar, where civil war has weakened the ...

Fierce opposition to the 2021 coup has left vast areas of the Anyar region in central Myanmar under resistance control. The villagers’ response to military raids finds expression in many ways, from ...

Fear of food shortages has gripped at least one of the camps in Sagaing Region’s Tamu Township that mainly houses Kuki, a group that lives on both sides of the border with India. Some Kuki complain ...

The AA’s offensives into neighbouring regions together with its resistance allies have brought Myanmar’s civil war to new corners of the country – and put the group within striking distance of key ...

Some powerful ethnic armed groups are increasingly throwing their weight behind Myanmar’s pro-democracy movement, seemingly defying China and other allies to take on the military. A pickup truck with ...

As China steps up measures to protect its citizens, an industry dependent on human trafficking and forced labour is adapting by targeting new groups – with a focus on English speakers. This article ...

Desperate migrant workers are increasingly heading for the Golden Triangle SEZ in Laos, whose illicit economy has apparent links to Myanmar’s most powerful ethnic armed group. While travellers pass ...

On any given day, the Thai side of the Moei River is bustling with traders loading hundreds of boxes onto small boats or rafts that cross the narrow stretch of water to Myanmar’s southeastern Kayin ...

Communities in Yangon live surrounded by garbage – blocking doorsteps, piling up in front of windows and clogging water systems. While much of this waste is homegrown, some of it was shipped halfway ...

Over the past month, rising tensions between the Tatmadaw and the Kayin State Border Guard Force over the latter’s business dealings have shaken Kayin State’s fragile political and conflict landscape.

Despite rising financial pressures to supply weapons and provide public services in its territory, the KIO cancelled a major business deal in response to protests from local communities trying to ...

With youth flocking to join the Kachin Independence Army since the Tatmadaw took power, Frontier spoke to the young Kachin who believe armed revolution is the only way forward. On the evening of March ...