https://www.scmp.com/rss/517562/feed Khu Sam is a photojournalist from Myanmar. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com A blitz on the cyber fraud industry along Myanmar’s border with Thailand has led to the rescue of around 10,000 scam workers, with the first planes carrying Chinese nationals departing on Thursday in a high-profile operation to show that the crime syndicates behind the illegal trade are being dismantled. But questions persist regarding the long-term effectiveness of the crackdown on an illicit industry that generates tens of billions of dollars annually, primarily benefiting alleged Chinese... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3299483/china-and-thailand-join-forces-tackle-multibillion-dollar-scam-crisis-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3299483/china-and-thailand-join-forces-tackle-multibillion-dollar-scam-crisis-myanmar?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 20 Feb 2025 11:24:16 +0000 For Myanmar’s people, year four under military junta rule has only brought more death, displacement and despair, as their troubled homeland is torn further apart by a seemingly intractable civil war. In capital Naypyidaw, the military – or Tatmadaw – calls all the shots, but after a series of chastening battlefield defeats, the generals increasingly find themselves boxed-in to the country’s central heartlands. Still, few among the anti-junta resistance forces harbour any illusions about an... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3296205/asias-forgotten-war-generation-sacrifices-its-youth-defying-myanmars-brutal-junta?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3296205/asias-forgotten-war-generation-sacrifices-its-youth-defying-myanmars-brutal-junta?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Jan 2025 00:00:16 +0000 In Myanmar’s conflict-hit south, recruits to the pro-democracy rebellion choose not to reveal their real names to their new comrades, despite sharing a common cause fighting the wounded junta. Thousands have joined People’s Defence Forces (PDFs) since a junta decree in February made all men and women over 18 years of age eligible for conscription to fight their own people. But taking on the junta puts the fighters’ families who remain at home in peril, so the new recruits give themselves noms de... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3258843/we-have-momentum-myanmars-youth-take-arms-against-junta-fleeing-conscription-order?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3258843/we-have-momentum-myanmars-youth-take-arms-against-junta-fleeing-conscription-order?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 14 Apr 2024 04:00:24 +0000 A conscription order by Myanmar’s weakened junta has seeded dread among the nation’s youth, with many making plans to flee or join pro-democracy fighters to avoid being drafted into the loathed military. Fighters from the People’s Defence Forces (PDFs) have a simple message for compatriots who have so far not directly supported their resistance against the junta, but are now at risk of being pulled into the violent chaos that has engulfed the country since the 2021 coup. “Join us,” John Paw, 27,... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3253196/myanmar-youth-look-flee-conscription-or-join-armed-rebels-fighting-junta-army-losing-control?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/people/article/3253196/myanmar-youth-look-flee-conscription-or-join-armed-rebels-fighting-junta-army-losing-control?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 26 Feb 2024 09:00:20 +0000 Three years after the coup, the walls are closing in on Myanmar’s junta and its leader Min Aung Hlaing. Humiliated and overrun across an arc of territory running east to west, his once unassailable military is slowly shrinking back into a central Myanmar heartland, harried by battle-hardened ethnic armed groups and bands of young pro-democracy rebels. A “spring revolution” is the buzzword almost being willed into existence over Myanmar’s vituperative anti-junta social media. “I think it may take... https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3249968/three-years-after-myanmars-coup-clock-finally-running-out-embattled-junta-it-slowly-falls-apart?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/week-asia/politics/article/3249968/three-years-after-myanmars-coup-clock-finally-running-out-embattled-junta-it-slowly-falls-apart?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 27 Jan 2024 01:30:18 +0000