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Myanmar’s military jet fuel supplies hit by latest US sanctions
US Treasury Department sanctioned two people and six entities linked to military regime’s atrocities, air campaigns.
Published On 25 Mar 2023
‘PR campaign’: Rohingya activists slam Myanmar repatriation plan
Rights campaigners condemn ruling military’s plan saying no word on Rohingya’s rights and their safety in Myanmar.
Published On 23 Mar 2023
THE BIG QUESTION
How will rising prices hurt Ramadan celebrations?
Cheaper meat and leftovers for iftar. No new clothes for children. Yet the crisis could bring Muslim communities closer.
Published On 22 Mar 2023
Myanmar’s democratic struggle at stake in Thailand’s election
Myanmar people in Thailand hope a new government in Bangkok will take a tougher line on the coup leaders in Naypyidaw.
Published On 21 Mar 2023

Myanmar delegation is visiting camps this week to verify a few hundred potential returnees for the project.

Rohingya refugees queue at an aid relief distribution centre at the Balukhali refugee camp near Cox's Bazar

The UN is appealing to global powers to help Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh.

Coup opponents say they are trying to recruit more informants as threats to those who leave intensify.

A low-intensity but bloody battle is being fought to contain the flow of drugs from Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’.

A Thai soldier takes part in training at the port of Chiang Saen on the Thai side of the Golden Triangle at the border between Thailand, Laos and Myanmar on the Mekong river March 3, 2016. Patrols on the Mekong River by the Laotian army and Myanmar police have subdued pirates who once robbed cargo ships with impunity. But drug production and trafficking in the region, known as the Golden Triangle, is booming - despite the presence of Chinese gunboats and Chinese armed police. The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime estimates that Southeast Asia's trade in heroin and methamphetamine was worth $31 billion in 2013. REUTERS/Jorge Silva SEARCH "SILVA MEKONG" FOR THIS STORY. SEARCH "THE WIDER IMAGE" FOR ALL STORIES

New report from Amnesty Intl, Global Witness and Burma Campaign UK reveals new shipments of fuel despite air raids.

Two military jet fighters fire missiles during combined exercises by Myanmar's army and air force near Magway, Myanmar, on January 31, 2019.

Kaamil Ahmed, a British journalist, on his new book about the Rohingya’s extraordinary suffering.

Seven children and 25 women were among the foreigners who died in detention last year, minister says.

FILE PHOTO: An immigration truck carrying Myanmar migrants to be deported from Malaysia is seen in Lumut, Malaysia February 23, 2021. REUTERS/Lim Huey Teng/File Photo

Myanmar’s energy minister, businessmen, high-ranking officers and private companies have been placed on sanctions list.

$(FILES) This file photo taken on October 21, 2016 shows armed Myanmar army soldiers patrolling a village in Maungdaw located in Rakhine State as security operation continue following the October 9, 2016 attacks by armed militant Muslim. - Myanmar's military announced December 21 it would suspend "all military movements" in the country's troubled northern and eastern regions for almost five months, an unprecedented step observers say could coax ethnic rebel organisations into the country's fractious peace process. (Photo by STR / AFP)$

The revival of opium production in the Golden Triangle comes on top of a booming synthetic drug industry.

A Myanmar government soldier displays opium poppy during the destruction of an opium field near the notorious Golden Triangle in Myanmar in 2000 [File: Emmanuel Dunand/AFP]

Experts say reduction would be ‘catastrophic’ for hundreds of thousands living in Bangladesh camps.

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Myanmar’s military jet fuel supplies hit by latest US sanctions

‘PR campaign’: Rohingya activists slam Myanmar repatriation plan

How will rising prices hurt Ramadan celebrations?

Myanmar’s democratic struggle at stake in Thailand’s election

Myanmar team visits Cox’s Bazar for Rohingya repatriation project

Will the UN’s plea to help Rohingya refugees be answered?

Defections from Myanmar military slow as generals tighten grip

‘Tip of the spear’: Battling the Golden Triangle’s drug lords

Myanmar military gets new aviation fuel supplies despite abuses

‘Everywhere they go, the Rohingya are exploited’

Malaysia pressed to probe deaths of 150 foreigners in detention

EU imposes new sanctions on military-ruled Myanmar

Q&A: The opium surge in Southeast Asia’s ‘Golden Triangle’

Alarm grows over WFP plan to cut food aid for Rohingya refugees

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