AFP | In a riverine battleground in western Myanmar, an entrepreneur hunts for reception using a makeshift bamboo antenna, his payphone kiosk providing locals a lifeline to connect with their loved ones. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar. Read here:

DOH ATHAN | LGBT people face discrimination in conservative Myanmar but are playing important roles in the resistance. We talk with a PDF commander, a fashion designer in exile, a trade union activist and a community organiser. Listen here:

အလုပ်သမားများသည် လုပ်ခလစာတိုးမြှင့်တောင်းဆိုနိုင်ခဲ့သည့်တိုင် နိုင်ငံတကာဥပဒေများကို ချိုးဖောက်နေသည့် စစ်ကောင်စီလက်အေ��က်က ၎င်းတို့၏အောင်ပွဲများမှာ မရေရာလှပေ။. ဤနေရာတွင် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။.

The Ta’ang National Liberation Army is under siege by the Myanmar junta in northern Shan State, while also enduring a Chinese blockade and sporadic unrest in its multi-ethnic territory, but the group says it won’t give ground without a fight. Read here:

This week on Frontier’s podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, we discuss the surge in the use of child soldiers by the military with Human Rights Watch's Shayna Bauchner and independent researcher Thiri.

This week on Frontier’s podcast What's Happening in Myanmar, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing heads to Belarus after a peace performance, and Frontier Myanmar journalist Ya Nwe talks about the wider gains for workers from the Tsang Yih strike last month.

စစ်ကောင်စီက အဆင့်မြင့်နည်းပညာများသုံး၍ ခရီးသွားများကို ပိုမိုတင်းကျပ်စွာ စစ်ဆေး၊ ဖမ်းဆီးလာသဖြင့်အတိုက်အခံလှုပ်ရှားသူများအကြား စိုးရိမ်မှုမြင့်တက်နေသည���။. ဤနေရာတွင် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။.

A Finalist for Business Reporting was ‘All that glitters: Gold market freezes amid junta crackdown’ by Ya Nwe:.

A Finalist for Feature Writing was ‘Finding Marwi in Loikaw’ by Andrew Nachemson:.

An Honourable Mention for Audio Reporting went to ‘The burning of Buthidaung’ by Frontier’s Doh Athan podcast produced by Win Zar Ni Aung:.

An Award of Excellence in Technology Reporting went to the three-article series ‘Myanmar’s cyberscam scourge’ by Ya Nwe, Naw Betty Han, Andrew Nachemson and Emily Fishbein:.

A Scoop Award for Excellence went to the two-article series ‘Dissent in the junta’s ranks’ by Ya Nwe, Ye Mon and MK:.

An Award for Excellence in Business Reporting went to the article ‘Smugglers’ paradise: Illicit seafood trade soars in Tanintharyi’ by Mg Htin:.

An Award for Excellence in Arts and Culture Reporting went to the article ‘Dead man’s hand: Gambling takes over funerals’ by Ya Nwe:.

Frontier is proud of its journalists for winning four Awards for Excellence, one Honourable Mention and two Finalist mentions at this year's awards from the Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA). Details in the thread below. 🧵

AFP | Elections being planned by Myanmar’s ruling junta are a ploy to feign legitimacy and should be rejected by the international community as a “fraud”, a United Nations expert said Wednesday. Read here:

Some Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh are working as online freelancers, but limited internet and electricity as well as banking restrictions make this an uphill battle, while conservative gender norms punish women for trying to do the same. Read here:

AFP | A Myanmar woman arrested by the junta for “spreading propaganda” is being detained over a Facebook post celebrating the 80th birthday of jailed democratic leader Daw Aung San Suu Kyi, local media said. Read here:

မတ်၂၈ငလျင်ကြောင့် အာမခံကုမ္ပဏီများက နေပြည်တော်နှင့်မန္တလေးတို့တွင် လျော်ကြေးအများအပြား ပေးဆောင်ရ၍ဖွံ့ဖြိုးစ အာခံကဏ္ဍတစ်ခုလုံး ရုန်းကန်ရဖွယ်ရှိသည်။. ဤနေရာတွင် ဖတ်ရှုနိုင်ပါသည်။.

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