Frontier Myanmar

What's Happening in Myanmar

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Join journalists and experts discussing the biggest Myanmar news stories in this weekly show from the Frontier Myanmar podcast family. Reliable. Concise. Informative.

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International Criminal at Large 29.11.2024 45:20

With Zarni, Senior Producer of Doh Athan , and Joe Freeman, Myanmar Researcher at Amnesty International. This week on What's Happening in Myanmar, the ICC applies for an arrest warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, traumatized Rohingya arrive in Bangladesh, and we get a behind-the-scenes peek at Doh Athan, the sister podcast in the Frontier Myanmar family. Email the show at whimyanmar@proto...

Factory Strikes & The Border View from Bangladesh 22.11.2024 35:26

With Ko Maung, labor rights activist, and Matthew Brunwasser, independent journalist. This week in What's Happening in Myanmar we discuss the ongoing Charis strike in Hlaingtharya and Myanmar army attacks on Bangladesh fisherman on the Naf river. Timecodes: 1m07s :: Weekly news digest 2m10s :: Charis strikes and post-coup industrial relations 22m03s :: Life and Death on the Bangladesh Border 34m2...

Kachin Rare Earths & The House of Trump 15.11.2024 40:24

This week in Myanmar: Air strikes kill dozens of civilians and combatants, the Kachin Independence Army and Organisation stand to negotiate with civil society and China on their recent rare earth acquisitions, and Trump's 2025 Secretary of State bucks the isolationist trend. Email the show at: whimyanmar@proton.me and visit http://www.frontiermyanmar.net/ Timecodes: 1m08s :: Weekly news digest 3m4...

The General in China, U.S. Elections, & Teachers Cheated 08.11.2024 25:24

This week in Myanmar: Min Aung Hlaing visits China for the first time since his 2021 coup, the Republican party wins elections in the United States of America, shaking up that country's foreign policy, and teachers continue to get shafted by the enfeebled Department of Education under the military regime's State Administration Council. Email the show at: whimyanmar@proton.me and visit https://www...

The Anniversary of 10/27 & Another RMC Threatened 01.11.2024 43:53

Frontier Myanmar has a new podcast! Tune in for this first episode of What's Happening in Myanmar, the weekly show keeping you on top of the country's complex developments. In this episode, our guests discuss the pressure being brought to bear on Operation 10/27 and the MNDAA's control of Lashio, as well as the Arakan Army's encirclement of the Western RMC in Ann Township, the UN Special Envoy's t...