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One month after Cyclone Mocha wreaked havoc on Myanmar's western region, the world is watching the junta's response with grave concern.

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Fierce fighting in Myanmar between army, resistance groups kills at least 26, groups say

Reports say recent fierce fighting between Myanmar’s army and local armed resistance groups in an area east of the country’s capital has killed at least 26 civilians, including six children

The Independent UK

Refugees are living longer in exile than ever before, with complex consequences for them and their host communities

The number of people forced from their homes, primarily because of conflict or climate change, is on the rise, topping 100 million people in 2022 – more than double the number of displaced people in 2012.

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Five Myanmar ‘refugees’ in Mizoram found possessing Indian documents

A drive by a local unit of the Young Mizo Association (YMA) in Kolasib district a few days ago revealed five of the 110 Myanmar nationals were in possession of documents to pass off as Indians.

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Myanmar's young pro-democracy activists fill up prisons

MAE SOT: Police in Myanmar's largest city, Yangon, came for Min Thwe Thit before dawn on Feb 1, 2021. He did not know why they had come — or what was unfolding in the Southeast Asian nation.

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Training event slated as part of bid to upgrade agro-processing

The Office of Industrial Economics (OIE) is pushing ahead with a plan to improve the agro-processing industry across six countries under the Mekong-Lancang Cooperation (MLC) pact by exploring the status of agrobusiness in Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

Civilian deaths in Myanmar ‘higher than reported’

OSLO: More than 6,300 civilians were killed in Myanmar in the first 20 months after the February 2021 military coup, a report published on Tuesday by the Peace Research Institute of Oslo said.

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Myanmar generals ‘held talks with Suu Kyi’

Senior figures from Myanmar’s junta have held at least two meetings with Aung San Suu Kyi to seek her help in starting peace talks but the jailed former civilian leader has rebuffed them, Radio Free Asia (RFA) has reported.

Bangkok Post

Foreign journalists quit club after chief visits Myanmar

Leading members of the Foreign Correspondents Club, the only media outfit that caters to foreign media professionals in India have resigned in protest after the club’s current president Venkat Narayan was hosted last week by the junta in Myanmar

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‘Horrified, shocked’: 10 journalists resign from Foreign Correspondents’ Club after president’s Myanmar visit

Ten foreign journalists working with publications based in European and Western countries have given up their membership of the Foreign Correspondents’ Club (FCC) South Asia, in wake of its president S Venkat Narayan’s three-day Myanmar visit. Narayan was in the Southeast Asian country from June 6 to June 9 to…

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UN agency says Myanmar has suspended international aid deliveries to cyclone-hit areas

A U.N. agency says Myanmar’s military government has rescinded its approval for international organizations to distribute food, shelter and medicines to thousands of residents in cyclone-hit areas in the country's west

The Independent UK

UN: Myanmar junta blocking aid to cyclone survivors

Myanmar’s military junta has suspended travel authorisations for aid workers trying to reach hundreds of thousands of people in the cyclone-ravaged Rakhine state, the United Nations’ humanitarian affairs office said on Friday.

Bangkok Post

Thai driver, 13 illegal migrants arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: A driver arrested along with 13 illegal migrants from Myanmar in Rattaphum district of this southern province on Thursday admitted the financial reward drove him to take the job – even though he had been arrested for the same offence three times before.

Bangkok Post

Rights group says Myanmar's military rulers have cracked down on lawyers, abused legal system

A human rights organization says lawyers representing critics of Myanmar’s military government face harassment and attacks ranging from threats and arrests to unfair trials and even torture

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Escaping Myanmar scam gangs a challenge

CHAING RAI: More than 140 Thais have sought help after being duped by online scam gangs to work in Myanmar’s Shan state since last year, and about 60 have been rescued so far, according to the Consular Affairs Department

The Hindu

NCBC probing West Bengal’s State OBC list; Chair Hansraj asks why more Muslim communities than Hindu

Acting upon allegations that illegal immigrants from Bangladesh and Rohingyas from Myanmar were being allowed to take up reservation in West Bengal, the National Commission for Backward Classes (NCBC) has now launched an investigation into the State’s OBC list, Commission Chair Hansraj Gangaram Ahir said.

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Ukraine and Myanmar make 2022 most violent year in a decade for medical staff

Report demands accountability for war crimes and singles out Russia for ‘mind-boggling’ targeting of hospitals in Ukraine

Bangkok Post

Probe into relocation of ethnic kids

ANG THONG: The Ministry of Education has ordered a committee to probe claims that 130 ethnic children were relocated from a Thai-Myanmar border town to a school in Ang Thong's Pa Mok district against their will.

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For children in exile, school's a lifeline

It's 9am, before classes start, and children's shouts and squeals of laughter fill the air around three cottages in a school compound, a hilly area not far from the centre of Mae Sot, a northwestern city on the border with Myanmar.

Bangkok Post

Missing Malaysian woman tracked to Myanmar border

CHIANG RAI: A missing 22-year-old Malaysian woman went to a river pier on the border with Myanmar in Mae Sai district before her worried family lost contact with her, according to official sources.

Bangkok Post

Thailand cuts power to two Myanmar towns

The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has cut off the supply of electricity across the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar where groups of Chinese businessmen have made huge illegal investments, at the request of the Myanmar government, Thai official sources said.

The Independent UK

Takeaways of AP investigation into a missing boat of 180 Rohingya refugees

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia

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A boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees vanished. A frantic phone call helped untangle the mystery.

On December 1, a boat carrying 180 Rohingya refugees set out from Bangladesh, bound for Indonesia

Bangkok Post

PEA cuts power to two towns in Myanmar

TAK: The Provincial Electricity Authority (PEA) of Thailand has cut off the supply of electricity across the Moei river to two border towns in Myanmar where groups of Chinese businessmen have made huge illegal investments, at the request of the Myanmar government, Thai official sources said.

Bangkok Post

Highway 12 expansion completed

The final phase of the expansion of Highway 12 -- which links Thailand with Myanmar and Laos in Tak and Mukdahan, respectively -- has been completed, which the government hopes will boost cross-border economic activities between the three countries.

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