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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son seeks help from France to prove his mother is alive after house arrest

France and Philippines to mount international pressure on Myanmar to allow access to Suu Kyi

The Independent UK

Son of Myanmar's ousted leader appeals to Macron for help in securing proof of life

The military's 2021 takeover prompted widespread public protests, whose violent suppression by security forces triggered an armed resistance that has now led to a state of civil war.

Euronews

Myanmar’s Suu Kyi moved to house arrest after over five years in prison

Former leader moved out of prison after commutation of portion of her sentence

The Independent UK

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Myanmar’s former leader Aung San Suu Kyi moved to house arrest in Naypyidaw

Suu Kyi, 80, has been detained by the junta since a deadly civil war erupted after the February 2021 coup

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar reduces ousted leader Suu Kyi's prison term in new amnesty

Myanmar’s military-backed government shortened the prison sentence of ousted leader Aung San Suu Kyi

The Independent UK

Family of American documentary filmmaker arrested in India over terror charges pleads for his safe return home

India’s anti-terror agency arrests six Ukrainians and American journalist and documentary filmmaker Matthew VanDyke for allegedly training Myanmar’s ethnic militias in drone warfare

The Independent UK

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son Kim Aris hit outs at Myanmar’s token prison sentence cut: ‘This is not justice’

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son says small reductions in jailed leader’s prison term are only designed to placate the international community

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Once on the back foot, Myanmar's military now looks set to resume offensive in bloody civil war

A little more than a year ago, the government’s military was on the back foot in Myanmar’s bloody civil war, pushed out of great swaths of the country’s north by an alliance of seasoned militias, and forced into defensive action around the rest of the country by other established groups…

The Independent UK

Rare earth mining is poisoning Mekong River tributaries, threatening 'the world's kitchen'

Toxic runoff from rare earth mines in Myanmar is contaminating rivers that flow into Thailand, threatening the Mekong River and its basin's fisheries and farmland

The Independent UK

US immigration agents left a refugee to die in the cold. His community is demanding justice

Buffalo’s Rohingya community pushes for NY state law to protect immigrants after Nurul Amin Shah Alam’s death

The Guardian - US

China’s top diplomat meets leader of Myanmar's military-backed government on regional tour

China’s top diplomat has visited Myanmar’s capital and met with the leader of its military-backed government as Beijing deepens regional ties

The Independent UK

US charges 2 Chinese nationals with managing cyberscam compound in Myanmar

Two Chinese nationals face charges in the U.S. that they managed a sprawling compound in Myanmar where authorities say workers were forced to participate in cryptocurrency investment fraud scams

The Independent UK

Concerns over welfare of imprisoned Nobel prize winner Aung San Suu Kyi

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The Independent UK

Beyond the Valley: Naga-Kuki tensions pile pressure on Manipur’s new government

For nearly three years, the ethnic conflict in Manipur remained primarily between the Meiteis of the Valley and the Kuki-Zos in the hills. But now, the already precarious security landscape in Manipur has reached a dangerous new inflection point as the state’s Naga community gets increasingly drawn into the fray.

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The Independent UK

Strange prehistoric bug with claws found trapped in amber in Myanmar named after K-pop group

Insect represents first fossil bug with forceps-like leg

The Independent UK

Thai foreign minister raises concerns over Aung San Suu Kyi in meeting with Myanmar leader

Myanmar's coup leader-turned-president told Asean is worried about Suu Kyi’s wellbeing

The Independent UK

The head of Myanmar's army-backed government proposes new peace talks with armed resistance groups

The head of Myanmar's military-backed government has invited armed resistance groups to new peace talks

Bangkok Post

Panic as Myanmar bomb lands inside Thailand

Thai villagers along the Salween River in Sob Moei district fled their homes on Monday after a bomb dropped by the Myanmar air force landed inside Thai territory during air strikes against ethnic Karen forces.

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The Guardian - UK

Myanmar military regime widens sanitary towel ban, claiming rebels use them for first aid

Activists say clamp down on period products to target insurgents is gender-based violence and violates rights

Euronews

Nearly 900 Rohingya refugees dead and missing in shipwrecks in 2025, UNHCR says

The Rohingya mainly leave from huge camps in Bangladesh, where more than 1 million refugees forced to flee across the border from Myanmar's Rakhine state live in squalid conditions.

The Times of India

Myanmar cuts Aung San Suu Kyi’s 27-year sentence by one-sixth, but Nobel laureate remains in prison

Myanmar has reduced the sentence of imprisoned former leader Aung San Suu Kyi by one-sixth, her lawyer told Reuters on Friday, but the 80-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate remains in detention at an undisclosed location.

The Independent UK

Myanmar reduces Aung San Suu Kyi’s prison sentence, her lawyer says

Prospects for former leader’s release from solitary confinement remain unclear

The Independent UK

No signs of Aung San Suu Kyi as Myanmar releases 4,500 prisoners in annual amnesty

Thousands granted amnesty and others have had their sentences reduced under a pardon order by president Min Aung Hlaing to mark the traditional new year

The Conversation

The Myanmar civil war is at stalemate – but anti-junta forces may be gaining the upper hand

Among the cruel ironies of the Myanmar civil war, now in its sixth year, is that for an army that is struggling to conscript soldiers, the Myanmar junta has repeatedly bombed its own troops held as prisoners of war.

The Guardian - UK

Norway’s state telecoms firm accused of helping Myanmar regime seize activists

Lawsuit in Norway alleges Telenor passed on data helping Myanmar military arrest 1,200 activists, some in safe houses

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