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Myanmar Regime Set to Resume New Yangon City and Other Chinese Projects
Source: Irrawaddy
During Min Aung Hlaing’s visit to Kunming in early November, Beijing proposed starting work on the Muse-Mandalay train line and resuming the New Yangon City project, a business owner told The Irrawaddy.
Irrawaddy
KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta Strongholds in Kachin Power Hub
Source: Irrawaddy
The Kachin Independence Army (KIA) has seized Myanmar regime positions and government offices in Bhamo town, a junta power base in Kachin State, according to Kachin media reports.
Irrawaddy
ARSA kills 2, abduct 3 and burn 3 houses in Maungdaw and Buthidaung
Source: Narinjara News
The residents expressed concern that the militants’ actions were aimed at creating religious & ethnic tension in the region
Khaing Lu Hla (Roma Mray)
Dissident US monk faces terrorism charge in Myanmar
Source: Radio Free Asia
The most serious charge carries a sentence of up to life in prison.
RFA Burmese
Activists tell US Congress of China’s far-reaching cultural erasure
Source: Radio Free Asia
Uyghur, Tibetan, Mongolian and Chinese activists say it’s hard to escape Beijing’s repressive reach.
Alex Willemyns
In Myanmar, a war no one watches
Source: Deccan Herald
The junta has perpetrated, with impunity, a multitude of gross human rights violations and mass atrocities as the international community – reluctant to antagonise China, a great supporter of the military regime
Paul Newman; Amaya Valcarcel
Bangladesh Modernizes All Branches of Its Military to Counter Threats from India and Myanmar
Source: Army Recognition
The change in government in Bangladesh, marked by the appointment of an interim cabinet led by Muhammad Yunus, has reignited discussions about revisiting the “Forces Goal 2030.”
Army Recognition
Aid Under Fire: Humanitarian Crisis In Post-Coup Myanmar – Analysis
Source: Eurasia Review.
The humanitarian crisis in Myanmar following the 2021 military coup highlights the devastating intersection of political conflict, environmental vulnerability, and systemic governance failures.
Naw Seng | Shwetaungthagathu Reform Initiative Centre
Appeal from the Ministry of Labour of the National Unity Government of Myanmar to the Thai Government
Source: Interim National Unity Government of the Republic of the Union of Myanmar
It has been observed that the current process includes the following issues, which may cause significant difficulties for Myanmar workers, deviating from previously implemented methods:
Appeal Statement | Ministry of Labour of the National Unity Government of Myanmar
Myanmar’s Resistance Manages to Defy Chinese Pressure — For Now
Source: United States Institute of Peace
These developments rippled through Myanmar and reinvigorated the resistance — but also triggered a dramatic response from the Chinese government.
Analysis | Jason Tower, Country Director, Burma
UNESCO adds Myanmar’s Thingyan Festival to Intangible Cultural Heritage list
Source: Eleven Media Group
The Myanmar traditional Thingyan, which will be designated as a UNESCO World Intangible Cultural Heritage, is the result of the Sanskrit rhyme and the Burmese word Thingyan.
Eleven Media Group
Ongoing battles means prolonged displacement for many villagers along Karen/Mon border
Source: Human Rights Foundation of Monland
“Before, we could go back home after fleeing for five or ten days. But now we dare not go back as the junta has been targeting residential areas with constant air assaults and indiscriminate artillery attacks,” said a displaced person from Ah Nan Kwin village.
Human Rights Foundation of Monland
ICC’s arrest warrant for Myanmar junta chief is a critical step forward
Source: Asia News Network
For millions who have endured decades of systematic oppression, displacement and violence, this move is more than symbolic, it is an overdue acknowledgment of their suffering
Yuyun Wahyuningrum | The Jakarta Post
Myanmar power output dims by one-third under junta rule
Source: Radio Free Asia
Observers blame decline on mismanagement and use of treasury for war chest.
RFA Burmese
Myanmar military presses offensive after two groups agree to talk
Source: Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s military is fighting to retake territory lost to anti-junta fighters and killed 11 villagers in its latest assaults, a pro-democracy militia member said on Thursday, after two ethnic minority forces agreed to ceasefires, leaving their pro-democracy allies on their own
RFA Burmese
Arrest warrant for Myanmar general revives Rohingya’s justice fight
Source: TRT World
The move offers a critical step toward accountability, though justice remains far from realised.
Hannan HUSSAIN
Meta faces appeal of $150 billion hate speech lawsuit over role in Myanmar genocide
Source: Courthouse News Service
Rohingya refugees argued before the Ninth Circuit that a lower court improperly dismissed their case against the social media powerhouse.
Matt SIMONS
ASEAN Ministers to Gather in Thailand for Myanmar Talks
Source: Jakarta Globe
ASEAN’s ministers will assemble in Thailand later this month to find ways to cool down the Myanmar crisis that is about to enter its fourth year, according to a spokesman of the Indonesian Foreign Affairs Ministry.
Jayanty Nada Shofa
In Southeast Asia’s scam centers, human trafficking worsens
Source: Voice of America
The young man has been handcuffed to the ceiling, beaten until his buttocks turned purple, and received electric shocks to his feet.
Dave Grunebaum
Myanmar Junta Swells Arrest Log for Online Criticism
Source: Irrawaddy
Independent research group Data for Myanmar said in a recent report that from February 2022 to October 2024, the junta arrested 1,840 people for online criticism, 657 of them women.
Irrawaddy
Application of the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide (The Gambia v. Myanmar: 7 States intervening)
Source: International Court of Justice (ICJ)
Pursuant to Article 63 of the Statute, whenever the construction of a convention to which States other than those concerned in the case are parties is in question, each of these States has the right to intervene in the proceedings.
Press Release | International Court of Justice
Regime election plans and prospects for dialogue in Myanmar
Source: International Institute for Strategic Studies
Following major opposition victories, neither side appears willing to talk. But pressure from Beijing, including for ceasefires and a regime-organised election, could shake up the conflict outlook.
Conflict Update | Morgan Michaels
Myanmar arrests 45 alleged scam operators in Shan state, but gangs persist
Source: Radio Free Asia
Authorities in Myanmar have arrested 45 people, including 18 Chinese citizens, for their alleged involvement in an online scamming operation in Shan state
RFA Burmese and Phouvong for RFA Lao
Myanmar: Escalating war drives cattle smuggling
Source: Democratic Voice of Burma / Mekong Eye
Screeching noises broke the calm of a chilly morning at the open livestock market in Mangshi, a town in China’s southern Yunnan province near the Myanmar border.
Report | Internews’ Earth Journalism Network
Myanmar’s elections will be a China-sponsored fraud
Source: East Asia Forum
It would serve China’s best interest if Beijing were able to successfully lead Myanmar towards peace, even if the government it props up is inherently authoritarian.
Alexis Turek, American Enterprise Institute