Foreigners caught selling street food in Khao San area Eight foreigners, a Turk and seven Myanmar nationals, have been caught illegally selling street food on Khao San and nearby Rambuttri roads in Bangkok. Bangkok Post · May 22, 2025
The Latest: US authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say Attorneys say U.S. immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan despite a court order on removals to third countries The Independent UK · May 20, 2025
US immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants to South Sudan, attorneys say Immigration authorities appear to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan, attorneys for the migrants said in court documents filed Tuesday The Independent UK · May 20, 2025
Disaster authoritarianism: how autocratic regimes deal with earthquakes An earthquake that struck south-east Asia in late March is thought to have killed more than 3,000 people in Myanmar, a country ruled by a military junta that has blocked humanitarian aid and continued waging war on quake-ravaged rebel territory. The Conversation · May 19, 2025
Thailand and Indonesia announce strategic partnership, vow to boost economic and defense ties Indonesia and Thailand agreed Monday to elevate their relationship to a strategic partnership, during the first state visit by an Indonesian president in 20 years, and agreed to push for greater trade and investment The Independent UK · May 19, 2025
Attacks on healthcare in war zones in 2024 reach ‘new levels of horror’ – report Health facilities were destroyed and staff killed in record numbers in conflicts in Gaza, Lebanon, Ukraine, Myanmar and Sudan The Guardian - UK · May 19, 2025
Thai construction tycoon and engineers charged over deadly Bangkok high-rise collapse The building, meant to house Thailand’s State Audit Office, was the only structure in the Southeast Asian country to collapse in the quake in neighbouring Myanmar, killing 92 people. Euronews · May 16, 2025
UN agency, Rohingya refugees allege Indian authorities cast dozens of them into the sea near Myanmar Indian authorities last week allegedly forced dozens of Rohingya refugees off a naval vessel into the sea near Myanmar after providing them with life jackets, a United Nations agency, family members of the refugees and their lawyer said The Independent UK · May 16, 2025
Reuters: Arrest warrants issued following deadly Bangkok skyscraper collapse It was the only skyscraper to collapse during tremors caused by a massive 7.7 magnitude quake in neighbouring Myanmar The Independent UK · May 15, 2025
'Children Are Innocent': Myanmar Families In Grief After School Air Strike Ko Min said he found his son and daughter's bodies in the ruins of a schoolhouse in central Myanmar, moments after a deadly air strike that witnesses said came as a military jet circled the village. International Business Times · May 14, 2025
Funerals held in Myanmar for pupils killed in alleged junta air strike on rural school Myanmar has been in turmoil since the army's 2021 takeover ousted the elected government of Aung San Suu Kyi, which led to nationwide peaceful protests that escalated into a durable armed resistance denying the army control of much of the country. Euronews · May 13, 2025
Bangkok officials end search operation at skyscraper that collapsed after earthquake The high-rise building, meant to be the new office for the State Audit Office, was the only building in Bangkok that collapsed following the 28 March earthquake in Myanmar. Euronews · May 13, 2025
First-of-its-kind video captures the terrifying moment the ground tore apart during major Myanmar earthquake A security camera near Thazi, Myanmar, captured the earth cracking during a magnitude 7.7 earthquake in March. LiveScience · May 13, 2025
Funerals held in Myanmar for pupils and teachers killed in airstrike on school Villagers in central Myanmar have held funerals for almost two dozen students and teachers killed in what they said was a airstrike on a school by one of the ruling military’s jet fighters The Independent UK · May 13, 2025
International Business Times · May 12, 2025 Myanmar Junta Airstrike Kills 22 At School: Witnesses A Myanmar junta airstrike hit a school Monday killing 22 people, including 20 children, witnesses said, despite a purported humanitarian ceasefire called to help the nation recover from a devastating earthquake.
Euronews · May 12, 2025 At least 17 killed in junta air strike on school in Myanmar, reports say Sagaing region, near the border with India, has been a stronghold of armed resistance and the military in recent years has stepped up air strikes against the local pro-democracy People's Defence Forces.
The Independent UK · May 12, 2025 An airstrike in central Myanmar kills up to 22 people at a bombed school, reports say Witnesses and independent media reports say that an airstrike by Myanmar’s military on a village in the country’s central Sagaing region has hit a school
Bangkok Post · May 12, 2025 Search for bodies ends at Bangkok collapse site Efforts to recover the bodies of those lost in the collapse of the State Audit Office building in Bangkok, triggered by the 7.7-magnitude earthquake in Myanmar on March 28, have ended, the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration announced on Saturday.
The Independent UK · May 10, 2025 Myammar's military government chief has first meeting with China's leader since taking power in 2021 The chief of Myanmar's military government, Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, has for the first time since seizing power four years ago met with President Xi Jinping of China, a top ally of his military government
Al Jazeera · May 10, 2025 Reporting from behind shifting front lines in Myanmar’s civil war Journalists with the Shan State-based news outlet Shwe Phee Myay continue to report amid civil war and repression.
The Guardian - AU · May 9, 2025 The Crunch: a great big election map; Myanmar’s ‘supershear’ quake; and how Met Gala outfits got bigger Another Australia election has come and gone in a flurry of maps and diagrams and we’ve collected the best of the lot
Euronews · May 6, 2025 US sanctions Myanmar's ethnic Karen National Army for 'facilitating cyber scams' The KNA controls Shwe Kokko and some areas in Myawaddy, on the border with Thailand in the state of Kayin, also known as Karen state.
The Independent UK · May 6, 2025 US sanctions Myanmar militia and warlord linked to cyber scams and trafficking Washington says Karen National Army and its chief lease land to organised crime gangs and run highly lucrative ‘scam compounds’ targeting Americans
The Independent UK · May 6, 2025 US imposes sanctions on Myanmar ethnic militia for 'facilitating cyber scams' An ethnic militia group in southeastern Myanmar that faces sanctions by the United States over its alleged involvement with human trafficking and online scams has criticized Washington’s actions
The Independent UK · Apr 30, 2025 Myanmar puts Aung Sang Suu Kyi’s house on auction for fourth time but finds no buyers The colonial-styled private villa of Suu Kyi is located near Yangon’s scenic Inya lake