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Teenagers are among the many who have fallen victim to these violent human trafficking scam operations. Several dozen teens, including one as young as 14, remain trapped in one casino on Myanmar’s eastern border with Thailand.
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It was a clear day when Kham set out from his home in northwestern Laos for what he thought was a chance to make money in the gilded gambling towns of the Golden Triangle, the border region his...
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The sale of Burmese blood gems is helping support the brutal junta government and Justice for Myanmar is calling on @rihanna to support a boycott of the jewelers that use them
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Pop megastar Rihanna received a good deal of criticism for her performance during Sunday’s NFL Superbowl Halftime Show, but it was what she was wearing during the performance that has led to outcry...
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Police bribes and harassment are part of everyday life for those who flee the war-torn country
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Burmese political activists Cherry and Min Thura were walking to a cafe in the Thai border city of Mae Sot when they were stopped by the police. What happened next was the beginning of a nightmare...
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Photos and videos from today's #Myanmar coup protest in #Bangkok: Fury, pain echo in on coup anniversary #whatshappeninginmyanmar #whatshappeninginthailand
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Aiming prop assault rifles as they “beat” and “sexually assaulted” civilians, Myanmar nationals brought to a Bangkok street this morning the brutality being visited by the military upon their friends...
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Starting tomorrow, two years since the Tatmadaw staged a coup and began a bloody campaign to pacify its own people, the #Myanmar Film Nights festival will show 11 films at two locations in #Bangkok and Chiang Mai. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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To protest the ongoing brutality of military rule back home, #Myanmar people and supporters will gather tomorrow morning in front of the Myanmar Embassy in #Bangkok’s to mark the second anniversary of the coup d’etat. #whatshappeninginMyanmar
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Civilian drones. refitted to drop explosives on junta troops, are helping turn the tide against the country’s better-equipped military, rebel groups say.
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Two years into Myanmar’s civil conflict, civilian drones refitted to drop explosives on junta troops are helping turn the tide against the country’s better-equipped military, rebel groups say. Drones...
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#Myanmar is the world’s third-worst jailer of journalists. Here are all 42 behind bars. https://t.co/0NUy7hLrnU
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Myanmar has become one of the most dangerous countries for journalists, with 42 reporters behind bars, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, or CPJ. That puts Myanmar in third place...
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Fortify Rights, survivors target #Myanmar generals in German lawsuit #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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Five years ago, soldiers with Myanmar’s Tatmadaw streamed into a Rakhine state village, burning homes and preventing anyone from escaping. They beat a woman in a room while others raped her son’s...
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Thai authorities arresting a Myanmar arms broker last year confiscated assets owned by the children of junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, prompting calls for a probe into their ties and to block their access to Thailand’s financial system.
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Thai authorities arresting a Myanmar arms broker last year confiscated assets owned by the children of junta chief Senior Gen. Min Aung Hlaing, a legal watchdog has learned, prompting calls for a...
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Australian economist Sean Turnell, who was recently released by Myanmar's junta after spending more than 650 days behind bars, recounts the difficult conditions he endured in prison and offers his views on the country's current political crisis.
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Sean Turnell, an Australian citizen who served as an economic advisor during the National League for Democracy-led government in Myanmar prior to last year’s military coup, was released from prison...
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It had been reported that Thuzar would be set free last Thursday as part of the junta’s National Day amnesty of 5,774 prisoners, prompting her husband, a retired journalist, to wait in front of the prison all day. But she never came out.
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Burmese journalist Thuzar, who goes by a single name, was sentenced to two years in prison by Yangon’s Insein prison court on Tuesday, according to a lawyer close to the case, who declined to be...
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Those being freed include Australian economist Sean Turnell, former U.K. ambassador to Myanmar Vicky Bowman and Japanese journalist Toru Kubota. https://t.co/fWnk04x4hF
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Myanmar's junta says it is releasing four foreigners from prison, including a former British ambassador and an Australian economist, as part of a major amnesty to mark a national holiday on Thursday....
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The move comes amid a shortage of doctors, who are already stretched thin due to fighting and the pandemic. https://t.co/6z8I7TYss7
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The move comes amid a shortage of doctors, who are already stretched by fighting and the pandemic.
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Human Rights Watch called the decision “a huge disappointment”
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Southeast Asian foreign ministers decided Thursday to persist with a failed peace plan on Myanmar, a move that a top human rights group called “a huge disappointment,” days after the bloodiest single...
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The blow-up over the sex dolls began when a group tried to bring them into Yangon's sacred Shwedagon pagoda. After being blocked by guards, they performed rituals with the dolls in the parking lot.
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According to local reports, a man has been arrested after he led a group that attempted to bring two sex dolls, dressed up in traditional dresses and tiaras, into Yangon’s Shwedagon Pagoda, the most...
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It's believed to be the deadliest single airstrike since the military seized power in the Feb 2021 coup. https://t.co/Z4xN661ARx
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Military jets bombed a concert in northern Myanmar commemorating the founding of an ethnic political group on Monday, killing at least 50 civilians and wounding 100 more, according to residents. It...
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“Recently, a few tourists came back but not as many as before,” said Maung Maung, who has been a horse-and-buggy driver in Bagan for 50 years. “Now there are very few. Some days, I don’t make a single dime. Others, I make only a little money.” https://t.co/TurkPVjZQk
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For 50 years, Maung Maung has been a horse-and-buggy driver in the ancient city of Bagan, ferrying tourists around to its soaring spires and iconic Buddhist pagodas and temples. But tourists have...
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The junta threatened to take action against @bbcburmese and @irrawaddynews after the outlets reported that military soldiers fired random shots into crowds at one of the most famous Buddhist sites in the country, killing 3 civilians. https://t.co/G1bga3zg3l
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Local reporters from two media outlets in Myanmar went into hiding after the country’s ruling military junta threatened to sue the news agencies for reporting that regime troops killed three civili...
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