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Myanmar Relief Camps Receive Last WFP Aid As Cuts Begin

Distraught Myanmar relief camp dwellers received final handouts from the World Food Programme on Wednesday as the UN agency begins halting aid to a million people in the country because funding has dried up.

International Business Times

A UN rights expert blasts the impact of US aid cuts on Myanmar

An independent human rights expert says Myanmar’s people are already feeling the “crushing impact” from the “sudden, chaotic withdrawal” of U.S. and other humanitarian aid

The Independent UK

Careless People: A Story of Where I Used to Work by Sarah Wynn-Williams review – a former disciple unfriends Facebook

This account of working life at Mark Zuckerberg’s tech giant organisation describes a ‘diabolical cult’ able to swing elections and profit at the expense of the world’s vulnerable

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Myanmar Village Air Strike Kills At Least 12, Says Local Official

A Myanmar junta airstrike on a village held by anti-coup fighters killed at least 12 people according to a local administrative official, who said the bombardment targeted civilian areas.

International Business Times

An airstrike in Myanmar kills nearly 30 people, an opposition group says

An opposition group in military-ruled Myanmar says an airstrike on a central village under the control of resistance forces has killed at least 27 civilians and injured 30 others

The Independent UK

UN Considering Humanitarian Channel From Bangladesh To Myanmar

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said Saturday the organisation is exploring the possibility of a humanitarian aid channel from Bangladesh to Myanmar.

International Business Times

AP Photos: "Shinbyu," a rite of passage for young Buddhists in Myanmar

Brightly dressed boys and girls mounted on horses and carts, accompanied by their guardians, make their way to a Buddhist monastery in southern Myanmar, as they prepare to enter a period of monkhood that can last anywhere between a few days to months.

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‘Inch by inch’: Myanmar rebels close in on key military base in Chin State

Under heavy Myanmar air force attacks, Chin rebels pay heavy price for success of ‘Mission Jerusalem’.

Al Jazeera

UN World Food Program to cut food aid for over 1 million people in Myanmar

The United Nations food agency says that more than 1 million people in the war-torn nation of Myanmar will be cut off from food assistance due to critical funding shortfalls

The Independent UK

UN chief describes aid cuts as 'a crime' during visit to Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has described humanitarian aid cuts by the United States and other countries as “a crime”

The Independent UK

WFP Says Funding Shortfall Forces It To Cut Food Aid To 1 Mn People In Myanmar

The World Food Programme will be forced to cut off one million people in war-torn Myanmar from its vital food aid because of "critical funding shortfalls", it said on Friday.

International Business Times

War Of Words: Myanmar Migrants Face Disinformation In Thailand

More than a million people have fled Myanmar's brutal civil war to seek shelter and work in neighbouring Thailand, where experts say nationalists are using disinformation to fuel prejudice against them.

International Business Times

Myanmar’s military rule is crippling hope for young people like never before

Myanmar has struggled with civil war, military rule and widespread poverty for much of the past seven decades. But the country’s youth have never faced threats to their survival and future as severe as today.

The Conversation

Acute malnutrition surges to worst level in Rohingya refugee camps amid UN’s food cuts

Over 15 per cent of children in Bangladesh camps are now malnourished

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UN migration agency suspends aid cut to Rohingya refugees in Indonesia

International Organization for Migration confirms there will be no planned cuts in their aid work for Rohingya refugees

The Independent UK

Activist groups urge UN probe of its Myanmar envoy after report alleges ties to Chinese companies

Activist groups are urging the United Nations to investigate its special envoy to Myanmar over possible conflicts of interest, after a report claimed her consulting company has ties to Chinese mining and construction projects in the country

Dynamite News

283 Indians, lured by fake jobs in Myanmar, rescued

Indian embassies in Myanmar and Thailand have coordinated with local authorities to secure the repatriation of 283 Indian nationals. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Myanmar junta’s promise of elections denounced as ‘sham’ by experts

There are fears military will deploy further violence in run-up to any poll, which is unlikely to be viewed as credible

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Opium Farming Takes Root In Myanmar's War-wracked Landscape

Scraping opium resin off a seedpod in Myanmar's remote poppy fields, displaced farmer Aung Hla describes the narcotic crop as his only prospect in a country made barren by conflict.

The Independent UK

Takeaways from the AP's reporting into what people face in Myanmar after release from forced labor

Thousands of sick, exhausted and terrified young men and women, from countries all over the world squat in rows, packed shoulder to shoulder, surgical masks covering their mouths and, some, their eyes

The Independent UK

Why thousands freed from forced labour face indefinite detention on Myanmar border

Thousands of young men and women, some of whom are highly educated, were initially lured to Thailand with promises of lucrative office jobs

The Independent UK

Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh brace for upcoming food reductions as aid agencies cut funding

Rohingya refugees in crammed Bangladeshi camps say they are worried about a U.S. decision to cut food rations by half beginning next month, while a refugee official says the reduction will impact the nutrition of more than 1 million refugees and create social and mental pressure

The Independent UK

Myanmar’s junta chief announces election by January 2026

The announcement comes as Myanmar’s military struggles to maintain control, with armed resistance from pro-democracy fighters and ethnic militias escalating across the country

The Independent UK

Myanmar's military leader announces dates for general election

State-run media in Myanmar say the head of the military government has declared the country will hold a general election within 10 months

International Business Times

Myanmar Junta Chief Says Election To Be Held By January

Myanmar's junta chief said the country would hold an election in December or January, the first in the war-torn nation since the military staged a coup in 2021.

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