What's Happening in Myanmar

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What's Happening in Myanmar

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

Episodes

  1. 5 DAYS AGO

    Factory Strikes & The Border View from Bangladesh

    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 34m20s :: Close Our guests— Matthew Brunwasser, independent journalist: Matthew Brunwasser’s website and articles Ko Maung, labor activist, organizer, researcher: Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar Support the Charis strikers

    35 min

  2. 15 NOV

    Kachin Rare Earths & The House of Trump

    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 3m41s :: Trump administration’s effects on Burmese 13m06s :: The Lucky Men Hotel 23m46s :: Kachin’s Special Region 1 & rare earths 39m42s :: Correspondence Our guests: Michael Haack, activist and key organizer for passing the Burma Act in the United States, who wrote about it for Frontier: How the BURMA Act passed congress What happened to the BURMA Act? Emily Fishbein, independent journalist with over 50 articles published on Frontier, and many more elsewhere: Emily’s list of Frontier articles. Jaw Tu Hkawng, independent journalist and activist, who with Emily and others published the Lucky Men feature discussed in this podcast: ‘The negotiation failed’: Hpakant’s deadly standoff He also writes with Al Jazeera. In this episode, Jaw also referred to Global Witness reports on rare earths and Hpakant in Myanmar: Myanmar's poisoned mountains Jade and Conflict: Myanmar’s Vicious Circle

    40 min

  3. 8 NOV

    The General in China, U.S. Elections, and Teachers Cheated

    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.frontiermyanmar.net/  Timecodes: 1m12s :: Weekly news digest 5m06s :: Changing U.S. policy under Trump elect 9m37s :: Min Aung Hlaing in China 15m46s :: Regime teachers getting shafted 23m16s :: Correspondence updates Our guests: Hunter Marston, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, with publications: Values over Interests: Variations in US–Myanmar Policy since 1988 The Pendulum of Non-Alignment: Charting Myanmar's Great Power Diplomacy (2011–2021) Ya Nwe, Frontier Myanmar journalist, with reporting that includes:  Unpaid and abandoned: Myanmar junta fails displaced civil servants (discussed today) Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady Anyar rising: Myanmar’s Dry Zone PDFs up the ante

    25 min

  4. 1 NOV

    The Anniversary of 10/27 and Another RMC Threatened

    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 trip to Nay Pyi Taw, and more. With guests Jason Tower, Country Director of the Burma program at the United States Institute for Peace; Ko Ye Mon, senior reporter with Frontier; and Ben Dunant, Editor-in-Chief at Frontier. Email the show with your questions and comments at podcast@whimyanmar.com and please like, subscribe, and review us on your favourite podcast platforms.

    44 min
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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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