AFP | In a country consumed by conflict, a sport defined by brutality dominates: Myanmar’s lethwei martial art, where headbutts are encouraged and knock-out blows are the aim of the game. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/war-b…

DOH ATHAN | Rising fuel, fertiliser and food costs are pushing indebted farmers in Myanmar’s Ayeyarwady Delta deeper into poverty, forcing them to grow low-grade rice as they struggle to feed their families. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Watch here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/too-p…

This edition of Political Insider looks at the education system established by the Arakan Army in its territories in Rakhine State and Chin State’s Paletwa Township. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/class…

OPINION | The armed forces have held power in Myanmar for decades, inflicting untold suffering on its people, but they are hardly understood and their study has been largely neglected by scholars and researchers, argues David Scott Mathieson. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/the-m…

Rohingya refugees who have made perilous sea journeys from Myanmar and from refugee camps in Bangladesh face discrimination, harassment and detention in Malaysia and other Southeast Asian countries. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/every…

AFP | As monsoon rains pound the heartlands of war-fractured Myanmar, “spirit consorts” gather to renew their vows with a pantheon of gods hailed for their powers to protect and destroy. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/in-wa…

VIDEO | Worsening conditions in camps in Bangladesh are driving increasing numbers of Rohingya refugees to risk dangerous and often deadly sea journeys in search of safety and the chance at a better life in Malaysia and Indonesia. Watch here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/where…

This week on #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar, infighting deepes divisions within the resistance movement as the NUG struggles to maintain order, the AA unveiled a new banking system, and Min Aung Hlaing strengthened ties with international allies. Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/resis…

This week on #WhatsHappeninginMyanmar, the junta claims battlefield victories, internal resistance conflicts escalate, refugees gain new rights in Thailand, and a damning United Nations report details civilian casualties. Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanm…

Women in Myanmar seeking to escape violent husbands face numerous obstacles, including lack of access to advocacy groups, traditional norms that see abuse as a “husband-and-wife matter,” and complex, expensive divorce procedures. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/i-fel…

Join us on July 3 for a screening of the documentary “Burma Soldier," about soldier-turned-democracy activist Myo Myint, co-directed by Frontier’s features editor Nic Dunlop. 🗓️July 3, 5pm 🗺️ Greenhouse co-working space, Chiang Mai More details here: mailchi.mp/frontiermyanmar.n…

Myanmar refugees have been deterred by harsh farm work in eastern Thailand, far from the camps and their families, but aid workers say more job options will become available as bureaucracy is eased and more employers hear of the programme. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/slow-…

AFP | Myanmar’s inflation spiked to nearly 25 percent as shocks from the Middle East conflict compounded the effects of the country’s civil war, the World Bank said Tuesday. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanm…

AFP | Chinese leader Xi Jinping pledged support on Tuesday for Myanmar in safeguarding its sovereignty, state media reported, as he met with the regime’s president Min Aung Hlaing in Beijing. Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/china…

A regime attack on a resistance-held village tract in Myanmar’s Bago Region in March took the lives of dozens, while anti-junta fighters had to make tough decisions to protect civilians. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/i-tho…

This edition of Political Insider examines the growing conflict fatigue among ordinary people in Myanmar as they struggle to get by in increasingly difficult circumstances. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/weary…

DOH ATHAN | A brutal digital crackdown is underway in Myanmar, with the junta tracking SIMs, scanning faces, banning VPNs and turning technology into a weapon of total control; yet resistance persists in the shadows. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Listen here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/surve…

AFP | Hundreds of thousands of people in northern Thailand have become collateral damage from the civil war in neighbouring Myanmar, turning to drugs as supply through the area rockets on the back of the conflict. Read story here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/myanm…

Recent announcements that the regime plans to resume the massive Myitsone dam project in Kachin State, 15 years after it was suspended, are raising alarms among residents and environmentalists. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar Read here: frontiermyanmar.net/en/stabb…