Widespread Wage Gains for Garment Workers
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Ya Nwe, Frontier Myanmar journalist. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, gains to workers’ wages widen with momentum from May Day, and coup leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing gives a peace performance in earthquake-devastated Nay Pyi Taw. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m21s :: Peace Conference and Belarus 04m39s :: With Ya New, Tsang Yih strikes, wage gains, and ILO convention 18m00s :: Lack of SAC and police interference 23m11s :: Future goals for the labour movement 25m02s :: Close Our guests— Ya Nwe, journalist with Frontier Myanmar And new content on the...
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Rohingya Armed Groups Organise
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Thomas Kean, senior consultant for Myanmar and Bangladesh with International Crisis Group. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the Arakan Army tightens its noose and expands its buffer zone as soldiers defect in Kyaukphyu and Ngape, and we discuss Rohingya armed group organizing in the refugee camps of Cox’s Bazaar, Bangladesh. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m10s :: The Arakan Army’s dominant position05m23s :: With Tom Kean, Rohingya armed group organising17m46s :: Dire conditions in Bangladesh refugee camps31m31s :: Close Our guests— Thomas Kean, senior consultant for...
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Administrating Ta'ang Land
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Lway Noon, a Ta’ang activist and researcher, and Francesco Buscemi, post-doctoral fellow in geography at the University of Bologna. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, a jet fighter shot down, fresh hopes for Myanmar workers, and we talk about the new administration in Ta’ang National Liberation Army territory. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m10s :: New ILO resolution03m05s :: Jet fighter downed05m18s :: With Lway Noon & Francesco Buscemi, administrating Ta’ang Land51m01s :: Close Our guests— Francesco Buscemi, post-doctoral fellow in Geography at the University of...
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Resistance Victories on Thai Border
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Tony Neil, PhD candidate in the Department of International Development at the London School of Economics and Political Science and visiting fellow at the Australian National University, and Saw Day Hsi, a Karen researcher in Kawthoolei. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, floods affect the north and southwest, the Shangri La dialogue generates more politicospeak, and the Karen resistance makes big gains on the Thailand-Myanmar border. Timecodes— 01m19s :: Shangri La dialogue 02m50s :: Floods06m23s :: Karen resistance victories09m18s :: With Tony Neil & Saw Day Hsi,...
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Malaysia's ASEAN Summit
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Dr. Monalisa Adhikari, senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Stirling. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, mass Rohingya drownings at sea, KNLA victories, TNLA defeats, and we discuss the negativity surrounding the recent ASEAN summit in Malaysia and its ineffectual statement on Myanmar. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m07s :: News roundup06m57s :: With Monalisa Adhikari, the ASEAN summit27m10s :: India and China working with ASEAN32m00s :: Peace processes in Myanmar37m46s :: Close Our guests— Monalisa Adhikari New original content on the Frontier...
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India's Assam Rifles Kill Ten from Tamu
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Angshuman Choudhury, doctoral candidate at the National University of Singapore and King's College London. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, thousands of workers successfully strike for better factory conditions, and we discuss the murky killing of 10 Myanmar rebels by India’s Assam Rifles. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m02s :: Successful strike in Hlaingtharya West03m37s :: With Angshuman Choudhury, killings in Tamu21m50s :: India and the Rohingya29m18s :: Close Our guests— New content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
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Back to Russia & Schoolchildren Bombed
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Richard Horsey, senior Myanmar adviser at the International Crisis Group. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military kills dozens of civilians in multiple major air strikes across the country, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing visits Russia again, and we discuss Myanmar’s relationship with that country. Email the show at Timecodes— 00m55s :: Air strikes kill children and civilians03m37s :: With Richard Horsey, Min Aung Hlaing’s jubilance09m35s :: The Myanmar-Russia relationship30m32s :: Close Our guests— Richard Horsey, Senior Myanmar Adviser at the International Crisis...
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TNLA Tensions & Rebel Economies
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Jared Bissinger, a visiting fellow at the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS – Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and research lead at Catalyst Economics. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, eyes are still on northern Shan State as the military pressures the TNLA after retaking Lashio, and we discuss how armed groups in Myanmar run their economies. Email the show at Join the Frontier team! We’re seeking a Managing Editor to help lead our newsroom. Find out more Timecodes— 01m09s :: Northern Shan State news06m40s :: With Jared Bissinger, non-state actors’ economic...
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One Month After the Quake
What's Happening in Myanmar
With Htet Aung, a journalist with Frontier Myanmar. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military floats moving its damaged ministries back to Yangon while killing hundreds of people in the month since the March 28 earthquake, and we discuss the challenges of reporting on the quake and its devastating aftermath in Mandalay and Sagaing. Email the show at Join the Frontier team! We’re seeking a Managing Editor to help lead our newsroom. Find out more Timecodes— 01m15s :: A month after the quake05m56s :: With Htet Aung, reporting on the quake16m30s :: Naypyitaw and damaged...
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Return to Lashio
What's Happening in Myanmar
With director of the Kachinland Research Centre Danseng Lawn and independent journalist Lorcan Lovett. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military reoccupies Lashio with help from the MNDAA and China, while still fighting the TNLA nearby, and we discuss the military defeats this month at Falam and Indaw. Email the show at Timecodes— 01m21s :: Lashio back in the fold06m08s :: With Danseng Lawn, Indaw military defeat21m14s :: With Lorcan Lovett, Falam military defeat37m04s :: Close Our guests— Lorcan Lovett, independent journalist, his And Dan Seng Lawn, Director of the New...
info_outlineWith Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, ASEAN continues talking consensus, Sittwe fighting begins in earnest, and we speak about the scam industry in the region, as hundreds of trafficked victims go free from Myawaddy.
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Timecodes—
0m58s :: Weekly news digest
8m33s :: With Sue-Lin Wong, the scam industry
15m06s :: Why do people fall for scams?
17m22s :: Coercion and worker trafficking
23m11s :: Chinese experience of scams
25m26s :: Absent connection to CCP
31m45s :: Future of scams
34m52s :: Close
Our guest—
Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist.
Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
And read Frontier’s editorial this week on the dangers posed by Elon Musk.