United Nations estimates, released last year, suggest as many as 120,000 people had been trafficked into centres in Myanmar, with a further 100,000 in Cambodia.
Myanmar junta’s access to arms, cash must be cut off, UN rights chief says
GENEVA (Reuters) – The international community must take “targeted action” to restrict the Myanmar junta’s access to arms, jet fuel and foreign currency to prevent it from committing “atrocities” …
Myanmar’s ‘Contractor’ Has Been Busy Monopolizing Military Businesses
After a decade of graft, junta boss Min Aung Hlaing now controls the businesses that profit from Myanmar’s military, primarily through Authentic Group of companies.
Should Bangladesh Recalibrate Its Myanmar Policy, Especially Toward the Arakan Army?
Members of Myanmar Border Guard Police, in civilian clothing, sit under the shade of trees after abandoning their posts following an alleged attack by members of the Arakan Army as Bangladesh border …
The Inner Demons Of Myanmar’s NUG
the Myanmar military and its multiple allies and proxies. From extra-judicial executions to torture to air strikes to arson to destruction of property to mass homicide to ethnic cleansing, there is no …
‘They have lists of everyone’s names’: Myanmar conscription law unleashes wave of fear
Potential conscripts fear they could be forced to carry out atrocities or be used as human shields by the military …
Now is the time to help Myanmar win its battle for democracy
The military junta is failing on the economic front and, more surprisingly, has suffered a string of defeats at the hands of the resistance movement since late 2023.
Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Phuket attract property buyers from Myanmar
Big-spending buyers from Myanmar have been snapping up more high-end properties in Thailand’s major cities in the past two years, making them top foreign spenders in the property market, according to …
Myanmar hosts seminar on RCEP implementation practices
improve the ecosystem for business, continuously enhance regional economic integration, and jointly build a closer Lancang-Mekong community with a shared future. Myanmar’s Union Minister for …
Myanmar: Young people attempt to flee ahead of conscription order
Justine Chambers, a Myanmar researcher at the Danish Institute of International Studies, says mandatory conscription is a way of removing young civilians leading the revolution.