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Myanmar authorities detain the U.K.'s former ambassador to the country

Vickie Bowman and her husband were detained for sending information to an activist group and others opposed to military rule, a senior military official said.

WEKU

‘Feeling like prisoners’: The plight of Rohingya refugees today

Five years after crackdown by security forces led to mass exodus from Myanmar, Rohingya remain stuck in ‘cruel limbo’.

Al Jazeera

Britain slaps new sanctions on Mynamar military-linked firms

Britain on Thursday announced a new round of sanctions targeting military-linked businesses in Myanmar in support of the Southeast Asian country's Rohingya community and in an effort to limit the military's access to arms and revenue.

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UK’s former Myanmar ambassador arrested in Yangon, report says

Vicky Bowman and Burmese husband Htein Lin detained and charged with immigration offences

The Guardian - UK

Authorities in Myanmar detain Britain's former ambassador, Vicky Bowman, and her husband

The British Embassy says it is "concerned by the arrest of a British woman in Myanmar", while it is believed the couple are being sent to Insein prison, the notorious jail on the outskirts of the commercial capital of Yangon where many political prisoners are held.

ABC News

Britain’s former Myanmar ambassador detained in Yangon, report says

Britain’s former envoy to Myanmar and her husband detained by Yangon

The Independent UK

Myanmar junta detains former UK ambassador

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain’s former ambassador to the country for an alleged offence under the immigration law.

Bangkok Post

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Britain's former Myanmar envoy detained in Yangon

Authorities in Myanmar have detained Britain's former ambassador to the Southeast Asian nation, where a military junta seized power last year, three people with knowledge of the situation said on Thursday.

Reuters

Five years after the crackdown, Myanmar’s remaining Rohingya ‘living like animals’

While 700,000 Rohingya Muslims fled Myanmar after 25 August 2017, 600,000 remain, facing harsh restrictions on movement, persecution and poverty

The Guardian - AU

Rohingya crisis: plight of Myanmar’s displaced people explained in 30 seconds

One million Rohingya remain in Bangladeshi refugee camps and the persecuted group has little hope of returning to Myanmar

The Guardian - AU

Rohingya mark 5th anniversary of exodus to Bangladesh

Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya refugees are marking the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar to Bangladesh

The Independent UK

Rohingya exodus explained in maps and charts

A visual explainer of the crackdown in Myanmar that forced about a million Rohingya to flee their homes.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar makes $800m from April-July gas exports

Military-ruled Myanmar earned US$800 million from natural gas exports mainly to China and Thailand between April and July, the junta said in the state newspaper on Thursday.

Bangkok Post

UN chief: Rohingya must be part of Myanmar crisis solution

The United Nations chief is calling on Myanmar’s military-installed government to include ethnic Rohingya in a solution to the country’s political crisis

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Myanmar nationals in Australia face passport limbo as calls for sanctions against military junta grow

Myanmar people opposed to the coup tell the ABC they fear renewing their passports at the embassy, which is loyal to the military, could expose and endanger their loved ones back home.

Bangkok Post

Hong Konger 'kidnapped' in Thailand by SE Asia scam ring pleads for help

Anti-trafficking campaigners in Hong Kong played a harrowing recording on Wednesday of a resident testifying that he has been kidnapped and forced to work for online scam syndicates in Myanmar.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar trade unions facing extinction after coup, UN agency says

Groups assisting workers and migrants have faced violence and arbitrary arrest since February 2021 coup, report says.

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Wheels of Justice Turn Slowly for Displaced Rohingya People

The International Court of Justice in July allowed a case to proceed alleging that Myanmar performed acts of genocide against the Rohingya after dismissing objections by the junta.

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Rohingya refugees cannot be forgotten

I have spent nearly 30 years exposed to emergencies and humanitarian crises. Yet, standing at our "hospital on the hill" in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, now the world's largest refugee camp, I was taken by the sheer scale of this makeshift setting. A jumble of humanity packed together in precarious bamboo…

Reuters

Rohingya crisis fund is 'well short of needs' - UN refugee agency

An appeal to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh is "well short of needs", the United Nations refugee agency (UNHCR) said on Tuesday, as refugees called on donors not to forget the crisis ahead of the fifth anniversary of their exodus from Myanmar.

The Independent UK

Rare earths processor buys rights to mine in Greenland

One of the world’s few rare earths processors outside China has bought exploration rights to mine in Greenland, opening an avenue for diversifying supplies of the minerals critical for advanced and green technologies

The Guardian - UK

‘Like an open prison’: a million Rohingya refugees still in Bangladesh camps five years after crisis

Myanmar’s crackdown in 2017 forced a vast wave of refugees across the border into already crowded and unsafe camps – the result of decades of international political paralysis

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's Rohingyas: 5 years of crisis

Myanmar's military launched a ferocious crackdown against the country's Rohingya Muslim population in 2017, driving more than 740,000 refugees into neighbouring Bangladesh.

Bangkok Post

UN envoy and SAC: more than tit for tat

When the United Nations Secretary-General's special envoy met recently with the military junta leader of a pariah state, the expectation was probably that it would start with an exchange of pleasantries and then be followed by some serious discussion. Of course, nobody would know what the two touched upon during…

The Hindu

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