Myanmar revokes foreign company exemption from currency ru...
July 16 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A bank employee ties stacks of kyat together in Yangon. The Myanmar currency has weakened since the military took control of the...
Myanmar’s ‘peace talks’ a dangerous diversion
July 8 ,2022
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By: David Scott Mathieson
Myanmar's military regime is talking about peace while waging brutal war. Image: Twitter
Myanmar is in conflict freefall, as the S...
Myanmar refugees in Thailand endure resettlement wait
July 8 ,2022
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By: Emily Fishbein
Refugees, who have fled a flare-up in fighting between the Myanmar military and armed groups, bathe in the river waters on the Thai-M...
Myanmar talks Belt and Road with China, restarts regional...
July 5 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
China and Myanmar discussed infrastructure development in a bilateral meeting Sunday. (Photo courtesy of the press office of Myanmar'...
China calls on Myanmar junta to hold talks with opponents
July 4 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
A demonstrator holds a poster of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi at a protest last year in Yangon against the Myanmar military cou...
Kirin to sell entire stake in venture with Myanmar militar...
June 30 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Kirin had hoped to continue selling beer in Myanmar after the dissolution of the joint venture, but it was not able to do so....
Cambodia, Myanmar race to become apparel making hubs
June 30 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
After Vietnam, Cambodia has become the next popular destination for China’s processing trade business.
YANG JINXI, QU YUNXU...
UN: Over a million displaced in Myanmar
June 5 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
More than 1,800 people have been killed and over 13,000 arrested in the junta's crackdown on dissent since the coup, according to a l...
ASEAN must not allow Myanmar junta to control humanitarian...
May 31 ,2022
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By: Marzuki Darusman
US President Joe Biden participates in the US-ASEAN Special Summit at the US State Department in Washington on May 13, 2022. / AFP...
In Thailand, Myanmar migrants’ illicit unions fight to be...
May 31 ,2022
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By: Kiana Duncan
Myanmar migrants in Thailand such as Myat Thida have little representation in the workplace [Courtesy of Kiana Duncan]
Ranong, Tha...
Senior US senator questions White House support for Myanma...
May 28 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
US Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell has questioned whether President Biden’s administration is willing to help Myanmar, s...
A tale of two genocide cases: International justice in Ukr...
May 28 ,2022
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By: Juliette McIntyre and Adam Simpson
The International Court of Justice (ICJ) is dealing with two very different cases under the Genocide Convention — one against Mya...
Rethinking Australia’s approach to Myanmar’s carnage
May 26 ,2022
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By: David Scott Mathieson
New Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Foreign Minister Penny Wong are expected to shift policy on Myanmar. Image: Screen...
‘We need guns,’ Myanmar resistance forces tell shadow govt
May 26 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Resistance fighters from the Khin U Local Guerrilla Force
With popular armed resistance against Myanmar’s military regime ha...
Western media wrong to say independent journalism in Myanm...
May 25 ,2022
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By: Igor Blazevic
The recent article in The Economist titled “Myanmar’s resistance is at risk of believing its own propag...
Head of Myanmar’s military government begins peace talks w...
May 23 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar’s Commander-in-Chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing presides over an army parade on Armed Forces Day in Naypyitaw in Ma...
Myanmar’s resistance is at risk of believing its own propa...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
To spend time on Burmese social media or online news sites is to think the end is near for Myanmar’s military junta, which s...
Myanmar Junta Threatens to Downgrade Australia Ties Over S...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
Myanmar regime leader Min Aung Hlaing
YANGON—Myanmar’s junta on Thursday threatened to downgrade diplomatic ties w...
Burmese civilians are caught between the junta and the res...
May 21 ,2022
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By: SAM Staff
When moe moe and hundreds of thousands of public-sector workers just like her went on strike after the Burmese army launched a cou...
How ASEAN's failed 'Five-point consensus' has let down the...
May 20 ,2022
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By: Khin Nadi
A woman prepares a placard out of crossed out portraits of Myanmar's junta chief Senior General Min Aung Hlaing during protest agains...
Malaysia shows Asean new options in tackling Myanmar crisi...
May 20 ,2022
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By: Tan Hui Yee
On May 14, Malaysian Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdullah met his counterpart Zin Mar Aung from Myanmar's shadow National Unity Govern...
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