Former Myanmar Senior General Than Shwe’s son-in-law sentenced to three years in prison for incitement
MANDALAY: Dr. Nay Soe Maung (pic), the son-in-law of Senior General Than Shwe (retired), was sentenced to three years in ...
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Myanmar aid groups struggle with freeze as UN warns of ‘staggering’ hunger
Groups helping victims of Myanmar’s turmoil are struggling to provide assistance after the United States placed a 90-day ...
As the Myanmar junta’s hold on power weakens, could the devastating war be nearing a conclusion?
Myanmar’s junta now only controls 21% of the country. Even if the regime can be ousted, there are increasing fears the ...
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Amid Hope and Despair, Myanmar’s Civil War Enters Its Fifth Year
Myanmar marks four years of a bloody civil war on Saturday with anti-regime forces holding the upper hand on battlefields ...
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China’s support for Myanmar regime backfires; scam syndicates thrive
Reports of Chinese citizens trafficked into scam centers along the Thai-Myanmar border are prompting renewed questions about Beijing’s reliance on Myanmar’s military regime to tackle ...
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Thai Immigration Officials Feed Myanmar Deportees Into Junta’s War Machine
Myanmar men deported from Ranong describe a system in which junta officials routinely visit a Thai detention center to ...
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Myanmar Junta to Evacuate Elite Military Academies to Naypyitaw
As fighting from northern Shan State spills over into Mandalay Region, junta boss Min Aung Hlaing’s alma mater in Pyin Oo Lwin is no longer safe from attack.
China has brokered another ceasefire in Myanmar civil war. But will it hold?
The latest China-brokered truce in Myanmar's civil war is likely to hold for now but lasting peace may still be a pipe dream, according to observers. Myanmar's military government and a major ...
Risk of violence escalates in Myanmar's civil war as junta flags elections
Four years after seizing power in a dawn coup that ousted an elected civilian government, Myanmar's embattled ruling generals ...
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Student Life in Rebel Territory: Bombs, Snakes and Hungry Cows
By Richard C. Paddock Richard C. Paddock reported from Myanmar many times in the years before the country’s 2021 military coup. The medical student was showering near his dormitory in the ...
Thailand and China to set up coordination centre to combat scam call networks
Thailand and China will work together to combat fast-growing networks of illegal call centres along the Thai border with ...
Why the Thailand-Myanmar border became a hub for fraud gangs preying on Chinese nationals
The recent kidnapping of a Chinese actor on the Thailand-Myanmar border has turned the spotlight on the international criminal gangs responsible for luring Chinese citizens abroad and forcing them to ...