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Myanmar: a microcosm of aid cuts and humanitarian choices
Source: Overseas Development Institute
Today, I walk into the rudimentary compound and am immediately struck that I am surrounded by men with lost limbs and war wounds.
By Dustin Barter
Starmer’s UK Aid Cuts a Gift to Authoritarian Regimes
Source: The Portugal News
The military have been a curse on the country ever since Burma got its independence in 1948.
By he Portugal News”,
Killing creativity: The junta’s cultural crusade
Source: Frontier Myanmar
While suppressing political dissent, the junta is also trying to cleanse the arts of anything it judges harmful to Myanmar’s traditional Buddhist culture, with LGBT themes the most recent target.
By Frontier
Myanmar junta bombs rebel wedding, at least 10 killed
Source: Radio Free Asia
Myanmar’s air force bombed a wedding party for two pro-democracy fighters on Tuesday, killing at least 10 people, members of the anti-junta force in the Magway region told Radio Free Asia.
By RFA Burmese
Sanctions rarely achieve their goals – here’s why they failed in Russia and Myanmar
source: The Conversation (UK)
Sanctions are, according to research, effective less than 10% of the time if success is defined as the complete compliance of a sanctioned regime with the imposed external pressure.
Tracing China’s Long Entanglement in Myanmar
Source: Irrawaddy
Senators, congressmen as well as the U.S. government began to issue statement after statement condemning the massacres and calling for a more democratic order.
By Bertil Lintner
UN envoy calls for early political settlement in Myanmar so Rohingya can return
Resource: Anadolu Agency
Special envoy of UN secretary general on Myanmar meets with Bangladeshi adviser for foreign affairs
By Sm Najmus Sakib
Russia signs memorandum to build port, oil refinery in Myanmar
Source: Reuters
Myanmar and its close ally Russia signed a memorandum on investment cooperation in a special economic zone in Dawei
Gold Mining in KIO Area Risks Environmental Damage
Source: Burma News International
A Jarpu Villager who wished to remain anonymous said to KNG: “We witnessed excessive mining, with activities extending to the village entrance.
Timber trade watchdog urges Poland to halt imports of Myanmar ‘blood timber’
Source: Mongabay
Highly prized teak from Myanmar continues to be imported into Poland, despite EU sanctions on the Southeast Asian country’s state-run timber monopoly following the 2021 military coup and violent crackdown on citizen
By Carolyn COWAN
INTERVIEW: Why an Argentina court filed a warrant for Aung San Suu Kyi’s arrest
Source: Radio Free Asia
Quintana said the court decided that she and the others must be included to show that the court is impartial.
Interview | Tomas Ojea Quintana is a human rights lawyer
Thai government urged to apply for warrants against Karen BGF leaders
Source: Justice for Myanmar
We urge the Thai government to expedite the process and apply for these warrants in court.
By Press Release | Justice for Myanmar
‘We have nothing now’: Myanmar’s exiled media face existential crisis after Trump severs aid
Resource: The Guardian
Organisations that take extreme risks to document atrocities, corruption and war crimes fear for their future after USAid cuts
By Kate Lamb and Rebecca Ratcliffe
Getting Ready For Tomorrow’s Myanmar – Analysis
Resource: East Asia Forum
Old certainties on the battlefields have been overturned by the proliferation of armed groups, including nimble guerrilla squads in central Myanmar and the widespread use, by all sides, of new combat technologies, including drones
By Nicholas Farrelly, Pro-Vice-Chancellor at the University of Tasmania
States must enforce historic arrest warrants for Myanmar officials issued by an Argentine court
Source: Special Advisory Council for Myanmar
The inclusion in the warrants of State Counsellor Daw Aung San Suu Kyi and then President U Htin Kyaw, who from 2016 to 2018 occupied the highest civilian positions in Myanmar under the 2008 Constitution, is unsurprising.
Statement | Yanghee Lee, Marzuki Darusman, Chris Sidoti | Special Advisory Council for Myanmar
Wa State Aims to Boost Economy Through Chinese Projects
Source: Irrawaddy
The meeting in Panghsang or Pangkham, the Wa capital, also focused on political reforms, reopening the Mansai tin mine, illegal activities and increasing electricity production.
By Irrawaddy
US fund cuts will worsen the Rohingya crisis
Source: The Daily Star
According to the UN, out of the $852.4 million required for the Rohingya in 2024, the US contributed $301 million—55 percent of the total $548.9 million provided by foreign donors last year.
Editorial | The Daily Star
Six Political Objectives And A Future Myanmar – Issue 162
Source: International (BNI)-Myanmar Peace Monitor (MPM)
This week’s Burma News International (BNI)-Myanmar Peace Monitor Bi-Weekly News Review looks at the six political objectives that revolutionary forces now mutually understand and accept, and their visions for a future federal union
Bi-Weekly News Review Issue 162
KIO/KIA Chairman: Defence Forces Should Collaborate
Source: Burma News International
General N’Ban La, the chairman of the Kachin Independence Organisation/Kachin Independence Army (KIO/KIA) said that the junta should use its power to increase Myanmar’s development and prosperity.
By Kachin News Group
USAid Funding Freeze Boosts Myanmar Junta and China: HR
Source: Irrawaddy
Donald Trump‘s freezing of USAid operations for Myanmar has blocked over US$39 million in funding for human rights, pro-democracy and independent media projects over the next three years, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW).
By Irrawaddy
Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Situation in and in Relation to Burma
Source: Federal Register / The Daily Journal of the United States Government
A Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President on 02/06/2025
Presidential Document by the Executive Office of the President
ASEAN’s misunderstood ‘Retreat Diplomacy’
Source: Asia News Network
At the Langkawi Retreat in January 2025, for instance, the tradition was not to immediately lock into a list of talking points and formal notes that must be discussed in unadulterated form by the ASEAN Leaders Summit in May 2025
By Phar Kim Beng, Professor of Asean Studies at the International Islamic University of Malaysia
Thaksin will meet ASEAN leaders soon to address Myanmar issue
Source: Thai Public Broadcasting Service
Former prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra said today that he will hold informal discussions with ASEAN leaders to try to resolve the conflicts in Myanmar, after he had a fruitful conversation with Anwar Ibrahim, the Malaysian prime minister and current ASEAN chair.
By Thai PBS World
Hundreds of Chinese Nationals Arrive in Three Pagodas Pass Within Days
Source: Burma News International
Since early 2025, Thai authorities have intensified crackdowns on online scam operations in Myawaddy and Shwe Kokko. A local resident reported that some groups have assisted in relocating Chinese nationals to the Three Pagodas Pass area.
By Mon News Agency
The Conflict Trap in Myanmar: A new series of Podcasts analyzing Myanmar’s recent history
Source: Transnational Institute
TNI has introduced a series of podcast interviews with Martin Smith* on the conflict history of Myanmar.
Podcast Interviews | Martin SMITH