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Myanmar and cryptocurrency key topics in Anwar-Thaksin meeting
Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service
High on the agenda, at his meeting with former Thai prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra yesterday afternoon, were the situation in Myanmar and the development of cryptocurrencies, according to Malaysia’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim.
By Thai PBS World
Arakan Army Defeats Myanmar Junta Base in Magwe Region Rout
Source: Irrawaddy
The Arakan Army reports seizing a junta defensive position in Ngape Township, Magwe Region this weekend, killing several dozen solders as it expands operations beyond its home state of Rakhine.
By Irrawaddy
Karen-Led Rebels Seize Myanmar Junta Base in Mon State
Source: Irrawaddy
They seized the base where around 100 junta troops were stationed on Saturday after a month of fighting, arresting 29 regime troops including battalion commander, Ko Aung Aung, an FFD spokesman told The Irrawaddy on Monday.
By Irrawaddy
Myanmar’s nonviolent revolutionaries must not be forgotten
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma
Peter Popham called her an Islamophobe. Bob Geldof, a handmaiden of genocide. George Monbiot wanted her stripped of her Nobel Peace prize.
By Fergus Harlow, writer, scholar, and human rights advocate
22 Myanmar Junta Troops Killed by Mandalay Resistance
Source: Irrawaddy
The PDF’s No. 1 Military Region in a statement said it attacked a junta column of approximately 50 troops from Light Infantry Division 99 between the township’s Mya Taung and Sein Pan Kan villages.
By Hein Htoo Zan | Irrawaddy
Myanmar: Four years after coup, world must demand accountability for atrocity crimes
Source: Amnesty International
The international community must take urgent action to ensure accountability for atrocities in Myanmar, 46 organizations said today ahead of the four-year anniversary of the 1 February 2021 military coup.
By Amnesty International
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son pleads with Myanmar’s military dictatorship to free his mother
Source: The Independent
Aung San Suu Kyi’s son has made a direct plea to the military junta in Myanmar holding her in solitary confinement to release her on the fourth anniversary of her arrest.
By Kate Devlin, Whitehall Editor
Joint Statement Marking Four Years Since the Military Coup in Myanmar
Source: Norwegian Government
Four years on from the Military Coup in Myanmar: joint statement by Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States.
Joint Statement | Australia, Canada, the European Union, the Republic of Korea, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, the United Kingdom and the United States
Thai protesters oppose bid to help migrant workers
Source: Bangkok Post
A network known as “Thais Won’t Tolerate” has urged the United Nations to reject requests from a coalition of Myanmar workers in Thailand to improve conditions for migrant labourers.
By Online Reporters
Education International calls for the restoration of democracy in Myanmar
Source: Education International
Four years since the coup d’état in Myanmar, democracy defenders continue to bravely resist the military junta. Educators around the world fully support our colleagues and the people of Myanmar in their struggle for freedom.
By Education International
Myanmar’s junta chief is running out of road
Source: Frontier Myanmar
Min Aung Hlaing has been thrown a lifeline by China and is now under pressure to show results, but his planned election is growing less feasible by the day.
Editorial | Frontier
Four years after coup, Myanmar regime prepares for ‘violent, messy’ polls
Source: Al Jazeera
Pressure is building on Myanmar’s military regime to hold national elections that opposition forces have promised to disrupt.
By Alastair McCready
Foreign secretary David Lammy makes impassioned plea for release of Aung San Suu Kyi
Source: The Independent
Exclusive: Cabinet minister demands she be freed after Independent TV documentary examines her rise and fall – and the plight of the people of Myanmar
By Kate Devlin
Returning home: Resistance, resilience and reflections of Kawthoolei
Source: The Stanford Daily
Whenever someone asks me where “home” is, my mind runs in a circle — trying to figure out the best way to answer the question truthfully without confusing them or myself.
By Mu Hsi Hsi
CHINA’S ENFORCER AND REFEREE ROLE: Kokang withdrawal from Lashio confirmed
Source: Shan Herald Agency for News
The rumors have been around for a few weeks ever since the meeting between the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) and junta or State Administration Council (SAC) took place in mid-January in Kunming, brokered by Beijing.
By Sai WANSAI
‘A litany of human suffering’ in Myanmar, warns UN rights chief
Source: The United Nations Office at Geneva
Myanmar is mired in one of the world’s worst human rights crises, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Volker Türk said on Friday, describing conditions there as “a litany of human suffering.”
Press Release | UN Geneva
Healing the young rebels of Myanmar’s civil war
Source: Al Jazeera
Hundreds of badly injured fighters from Myanmar’s civil war have been helped to recover at the Sunshine Care Centre.
By Ali MC | Al Jazeera
Aung San Suu Kyi isn’t the villain of Myanmar’s tragedy
Source: Asia Times
This is not journalism—it’s the rhetorical equivalent of lighting a pyre beneath a woman enduring her 19th year of imprisonment, including her fourth concurrent year in solitary confinement, and calling it justice.
By Alan CLEMENTS; Fergus HARLOW
China’s Rhetoric on Myanmar Doesn’t Match Reality
Source: United States Institute of Peace
While Chinese officials might argue otherwise, China’s backing of a military junta that is committing war crimes contradicts the stated objectives of Beijing’s Global Security Initiative (GSI).
Analysis | Phyu Hnin
Lashio still under Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army control despite reports of impending retreat
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma
A member of the Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army (MNDAA) administration in Lashio told DVB that the northern Shan State regional capital was still under its control on Thursday, denying media reports that its forces will withdraw by the end of June
By English Editor
ASEAN special envoy visits Naypyidaw
Source: Thai PBS World
The Malaysian chair’s special envoy to Myanmar, Othman Hashim, will visit Naypyidaw and meet with senior officials of the State Administration Council (SAC) next week, according to an informed diplomatic source.
By Thai PBS World
‘No happiness’: Misery for Myanmar exiles four years on from coup
Source: France24
Four years after Myanmar’s military seized power in a coup, the country is in the grip of a bloody civil war that has driven many of the country’s young across the border to Thailand.
By Agence France-Presse
24-hour Global Day of Prayer for peace in Myanmar
Source: Vatican News
Four years on from a coup in the country, Aid to the Church in Need will divide February 1 into prayer shifts, so that people all around the world can partake in this global initiative.
By Kielce Gussie
Myanmar’s rebels closing in around junta into fifth year of civil war
Source: Voice of America
As the war enters its fifth bloody year Saturday, experts tell VOA the rebels are positioned to keep gaining ground in 2025, closing in on more cities and weapons factories vital to the military despite mounting efforts by China
By Zsombor Peter
‘America first’ in action: Trump’s aid freeze erodes an already anemic response to Myanmar crisis
Source: Frontier Myanmar
An executive order by United States President Donald Trump has halted foreign aid programmes around the world, sowing chaos among the humanitarian community and its beneficiaries in Myanmar and Thailand.
By Matthew BRUNWASSER | Frontier