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Myanmar junta makes rare request for foreign aid to cope with deadly floods

September 14, 2024 admin

Flood-affected residents use tyre tubes as flotation devices in Taungoo, Myanmar’s Bago region on September 14, 2024, following heavy rains in the aftermath of Typhoon Yagi. Typhoon Yagi brought a colossal deluge of rain that has inundated a swathe of northern Vietnam, Laos, Thailand and Myanmar, triggering deadly landslides and widespread river flooding. | Photo…

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Myanmar junta chief warns of ‘counterattacks’ in opponent-held areas

September 4, 2024 admin

Media reports say that Gen. Min Aung Hlaing accused the People’s Defence Forces of using “administrative buildings and innocent civilians as human shields”. File | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s embattled junta chief has warned civilians in territory recently captured by ethnic minority armed groups to prepare for military counterattacks, state media reported on Wednesday. The…

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Myanmar junta, ethnic armed group claim control of military regional HQ

July 25, 2024 admin

File picture of Army officers stand guard as police officers patrol in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar. | Photo Credit: AP Myanmar’s junta and an ethnic minority armed group both claimed on July 25 they were in control of a town and regional military command in northern Shan state following days of clashes. Fighting has…

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Junta under pressure as fierce fighting breaks out in northeastern Myanmar

July 6, 2024 admin

New fighting has broken out in northeastern Myanmar, bringing an end to a Chinese-brokered ceasefire and putting pressure on the military regime as it faces attacks from resistance forces on multiple fronts in the country’s civil war. The Ta’ang National Liberation Army, one of three powerful militias that launched a surprise joint offensive last October,…

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Women forced to flee Myanmar as junta enforces conscription to bolster troops

July 5, 2024 admin

Estelle knew she had to flee Myanmar. The military junta had just announced it would introduce conscription to bolster its forces against myriad armed groups challenging its power, and she was terrified she would be forced to fight. The former government worker, whose name has been changed to protect her identity, is among thousands of…

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Myanmar opium crisis: Junta in Myanmar struggles to curb opium cultivation

June 27, 2024 admin

A villager walks in a flourishing poppy field at Nampatka village, Northern Shan State, Myanmar | Photo Credit: AP Conflict-ravaged Myanmar is “facing challenges” in stemming opium poppy cultivation, the junta said on Wednesday, months after the United Nations said the country had become the world’s biggest producer of the narcotic substances. Myanmar’s legal economy…

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Myanmar junta orders evacuations around embattled State capital

June 14, 2024 admin

This photo shows a destroyed house and burned trees following fighting between Myanmar’s military and the Arakan Army (AA) ethnic minority armed group in the Rakhine State. | Photo Credit: AFP Myanmar’s junta has ordered thousands of people living outside a State capital threatened by ethnic rebels to leave their homes and head into the…

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Thailand delivers aid to Myanmar, but critics say it only helps the ruling junta

March 26, 2024 admin

Thailand delivered its first batch of humanitarian aid to war-torn Myanmar on March 25, in what officials hope will be a continuing effort to ease the plight of millions of people displaced by fighting. But critics charge that the aid will benefit only people in areas under the Myanmar military’s control, providing it with a…

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Myanmar junta bombs town on China border for second day

November 2, 2023 admin

Myanmar’s military launched a second day of air strikes on Wednesday, bombing territory controlled by an ethnic armed group on the border with China, a rebel spokesman told AFP. The strikes come as the military battles an alliance of armed groups across a northern region that is home to Chinese investment and where the junta…

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Myanmar clashes stretch into second day

October 28, 2023 admin

This handout photo taken and released October 28, 2023 by the Kokang Information Network shows members of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army walking past a Myanmar military base after seizing it during clashes near Laukkaing township in Myanmar’s northern Shan state. | Photo Credit: AFP Heavy fighting between rebels and the Myanmar military stretched…

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