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Latest news, updates and opinion on Myanmar, covering politics, economy, society and the country’s relationships with China and India, and other countries in Southeast Asia.
India is sending back thousands of Myanmar refugees, whom they blame for ethnic violence erupting in Manipur state.
Some 19 per cent of the roughly 1,100 fish species in Southeast Asia’s longest river are heading towards extinction, according to a report compiled by the WWF and 25 global marine and wildlife conservation groups.
Thai deputy police chief Surachae Hakparn said the operation involved 15 flights over three days to return Chinese scam victims to China.
Japan is being criticised for not standing up for human rights by calling out Vladimir Putin or the Russian government over opposition leader Alexei Navalny’s death in custody.
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.
The Japanese gang member is said to have sourced uranium and plutonium from Myanmar and had hoped to use sale proceeds to buy surface-to-air missiles for an insurgent group.
The move allows the military to summon all men aged 18-35 and women aged 18-27 to serve for at least 2 years.
Last month’s China-mediated ceasefire between Myanmar’s junta, the Arakan Army and other ethnic minority fighters doesn’t apply to areas near the Bangladeshi and Indian borders.
Chinese infrastructure investments, cybercrime and speculation about Beijing’s position complicate ceasefire negotiations between Myanmar’s military government and rebel groups, observers say.
An official said 131 people escaped from the Bidor immigration detention depot in Perak state.
Democrat Betty McCollum and Republican Bill Huizenga said the first-ever caucus on the coup-hit nation will ‘address issues impacting the Burmese people across the US’.
Alleged ringleaders of telecoms crime rings are extradited from Southeast Asian country in move Beijing calls a ‘historic and significant’ moment in sweeping crackdown against ‘arrogant overseas fraud syndicates’.
Myanmar’s ruling generals remain barred from key Asean meetings over their failure to implement a peace plan agreed with the bloc two months after a 2021 coup that unleashed chaos in the country.
But the military is likely to ‘fight ever more brutally, the closer it comes to defeat’, analysts say, even as ‘pace of liberation quickens’ in Myanmar.
Young Rohingya women in Bangladesh are trafficked to India on the pretext of ‘marriage to a good man’, but often end up arrested and detained in shelters.
To criminal networks, Southeast Asia’s casinos are the new banks, allowing them to launder money on a vast scale away from scrutiny and law enforcement.
A wave of young Hindu nationalist singers are releasing songs that ‘spew hatred against Muslims’ and other minorities in an emerging genre known as Hindutva pop.
‘Immediate ceasefire’ follows two days of talks between junta and rebel Three Brotherhood Alliance in Kunming, Chinese foreign ministry says.
Myanmar’s shadow government says it wants to work with China on issues ranging from investments to cross-border crime.
Home Affairs Minister K Shanmugam said move necessary to meet the increasing demand for security services amid waning interest from Taiwanese applicants.