Myanmar
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Snatched from their beds, taken on the streets – the young men in Myanmar forced to fight the junta’s losing war
After a string of humiliating defeats, the army has turned to press-ganging young men into frontline duty – le…
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‘This is a big chance for all of us’: Germany’s freedom hotel where exiled journalists take refuge
As attacks on the press rise, the House of Critical Voices offers sanctuary for media workers exposing abusesW…
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Climate scientists troubled by damage from floods ravaging central Europe
Experts unsurprised at intensity of extreme weather but say damage wreaked shows how unprepared world isEurope…
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Typhoon Yagi: scores dead from flooding in Myanmar
At least 320,000 people have been displaced and 64 were still missing after the strongest storm to hit Asia th…
- Asean (Association of Southeast Asian Nations), China, Global development, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, United Nations, World news
China’s deadly divide-and-rule tactics in Myanmar risk shock waves across region | Simon Tisdall
Far from acting as a broker, Beijing is playing both sides in a state torn by brutality and chaosThings fall a…
- Bangladesh, Global development, Humanitarian response, Internally displaced people, Law, Myanmar, Refugees, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, War crimes, World news
Thousands flee after Myanmar rebels use drones to bomb Rohingya villagers
Arakan Army targeting Muslim minority as Myanmar’s military are driven out of Rakhine, UN official saysThousan…
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Children among up to 200 Rohingya killed in Myanmar drone attack
Witnesses say people killed in artillery and drone attack that targeted civilians fleeing violenceMany dozens …
- Aung San Suu Kyi, Children's rights, Conflict and arms, Education, Global development, Myanmar, South and Central Asia, World news
Myanmar junta ‘bombing schools’, with 170 sites hit in past three years – report
Analysis of imagery from conflict zones shows evidence of burned-out and flattened buildings, with long-term i…
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Thai artist gives voice to Myanmar’s Shan refugees at Venice and Bangkok biennales
Themes of displacement and diaspora explored in collaborative textile project as part of The Spirits of Mariti…
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Tin Oo, NLD founder with Aung San Suu Kyi, dies aged 97 in Myanmar
Former armed forces chief was imprisoned after failed revolt against junta and later campaigned with Nobel lau…
- Global development, Migration and development, Myanmar, Rohingya, South and Central Asia, World news
Who are the Rohingya and what is happening in Myanmar?
Fresh outbreak of violence after decades of ethnic tensions has prompted tens of thousands of people to flee t…
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Rohingya being forcibly conscripted in battle between Myanmar and rebels
Myanmar military has conscripted 1,000 Rohingya men and boys since February, with fears some are being used as…
- Bangladesh, Climate crisis, Environment, Extreme heat, Myanmar, Philippines, South and Central Asia, Thailand
‘Inside an oven’: how life in south-east Asia is a struggle amid sweltering heat
Governments issue health warnings as schools shut and crops fail, with fears that worse is to come as heatwave…
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UK accused by Amnesty of ‘deliberately destabilising’ human rights globally
Rights chief also warns Britain will be ‘judged harshly by history for its failure to help prevent civilian sl…
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Fighting rages at Myanmar’s border with Thailand as rebels target junta troops
Thousands of civilians flee as resistance fighters fight to flush out soldiers holed up at eastern bridge bord…