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Anwar wants Thailand to do more on Myanmar

Malaysian Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim has asked Thailand to play a more active role in resolving the conflict in Myanmar, making comments that signal Southeast Asia is divided on how to handle the junta that seized power two years ago.

Bangkok Post

Bangladesh calls for Australia to increase intake of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar

Bangladeshi Foreign Minister AK Abdul Momen says many countries had substantially increased the number of Rohingya refugees they had taken, and he would like to see Australia take more people in.

ABC News

Reversing Myanmar's internal strife

This month marks two anniversaries of ongoing conflicts in Europe and Southeast Asia, namely 12 months after Russia invaded Ukraine and two years since Myanmar's military seized power by toppling a democratically elected and civilian-led government under Aung San Suu Kyi.

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Myanmar vendors nabbed on Khao San Road

Immigration police have raided kebab and roti shops owned by Myanmar vendors in the Khao San Road area as part of a crackdown on foreigners working in jobs reserved for Thai citizens.

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Illegal migrants, job brokers arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Thirty-three illegal Myanmar migrants and three job brokers were arrested by immigration police at an abandoned warehouse in Bang Klam district on Wednesday.

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Toddler plunges down 43ft well before being trapped for 18 hours after falling in

The migrant workers from Myanmar began to panic when they couldn’t find the toddler who had fallen down a well in Phop Phra district, Tak Province, Thailand

Daily Mirror

Toddler saved from deep well, 18-hour overnight rescue

A 19-month-old girl who fell down a narrow well was finally lifted to safety after an 18-hour overnight rescue at a cassava plantation in Phop Phra district of Tak province.

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Myanmar man found hanged

SAMUT PRAKAN: A 56-year-old man whose daughter refused to allow him to return to Myanmar was found dead, hanged by a rope from a grill, at their rented room in Bang Phli district on Monday night.

Bangkok Post

Asean and Myanmar: The next moves

Last week, the new Asean chair, Indonesia, convened the first two important meetings -- the Asean Coordinating Council and Asean Foreign Ministers' Retreat -- to discuss and follow up on ongoing and emerging issues that have to do with the relevancy of Asean and its centrality.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar Diaries review – gut-punching guerrilla testament to military coup violence

This powerful Berlin prize winner mixes smartphone footage and allegorical segments to expose the trauma of the 2021 coup

The Guardian - UK

ASEAN Ministers Urge Myanmar Junta to Implement Agreed Peace Plan

Southeast Asian ministers at the end of two-day talks in Indonesia on Saturday urged Myanmar's junta to implement a five-point peace plan agreed two years ago to create a path towards ending the country's political crisis. Indonesia -- Southeast Asia's biggest economy -- is the chair of the 10-member Association…

Asharq Al-Awsat

Myanmar military expands martial law in strongholds of resistance

Expansion of martial law in 37 townships indicates the military is looking for new ways to crush resistance.

Al Jazeera

ASEAN vows to conclude pact with China on disputed territory

Southeast Asian foreign ministers have vowed to finalize negotiations with China aimed at preventing conflicts in the disputed South China Sea

The Independent UK

Myanmar job seekers, three brokers arrested in Songkhla

SONGKHLA: Thirty illegal job seekers from Myanmar crammed in a pickup truck were arrested in Bang Klam district of this southern border province on Friday night.

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Are we forgetting the Myanmar crisis?

For more than four decades of political instabilities, Myanmar has been a hotbed of internal and regional displacement, with millions of civilians forced to flee their homes.

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Asean ministers hold ‘frank’ talks on Myanmar

JAKARTA: The conflict in Myanmar dominated the year’s first meeting of Asean foreign ministers on Friday, with Indonesia’s top diplomat saying that member states had “frank” discussions on the issue.

Reuters

'Frank' talks on Myanmar dominate ASEAN foreign ministers meeting

The conflict in Myanmar dominated the year's first meeting of ASEAN foreign ministers in Jakarta on Friday, with Indonesia's top diplomat saying that member states had "frank" discussions on the issue.

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Why Has the West Given Billions in Military Aid to Ukraine, but Virtually Ignored Myanmar?

It proves challenging to build a narrative around the Myanmar crisis due to the complexities within the country.

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The Independent UK

ASEAN foreign ministers meet under shadow of Myanmar crisis

Southeast Asian foreign ministers are gathering in Indonesia for talks bound to be dominated by the deteriorating situation in Myanmar despite an agenda focused on food and energy security and cooperation in finance and health

Bangkok Post

Myanmar labourers repatriated

RANONG: Myanmar authorities visited Ranong to repatriate 670 illegal workers after they held a protest on Jan 28 about being detained and demanded they be returned to their homeland, marking the biggest such transfer of immigrant workers to date in the province.

The New Daily

Several areas of Myanmar placed under martial law

Martial law has been imposed in almost 40 towns across Myanmar's 14 regions, with authorities saying the move was necessary to effectively carry out security.

Al Jazeera

Why Myanmar’s opposition wants a ban on jet fuel

Myanmar military takes fight against coup opponents to the skies as it loses ground on the battlefield.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar's military takeover falters

Global news headlines this month will be focused on the one-year anniversary of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, which falls on Feb 24. This external aggression, where a bigger state unilaterally takes territory from a smaller neighbour by force, can be juxtaposed to an internal subjugation in Myanmar, where a military…

The Independent UK

Military places restive areas of Myanmar under martial law

Martial law has been declared in several areas of military-run Myanmar, a day after authorities announced that a state of emergency has been extended throughout the country, which is wracked by violence that some U.N. experts have described as a civil war

Al Jazeera

‘Riding a rollercoaster’ in Myanmar’s post-coup economy

Deepening conflict, sudden changes to regulations and a lack of transparency have made business increasingly hard.

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