Myanmar’s rebels see unity as key to victory over weakened military rulers | Conflict News

Zayar, a fighter with the KTLA in Karen State, Myanmar, in December 2023 [Lorcan Lovett/Al Jazeera]

Karen State, Myanmar – A young fighter looks out from the upper floor in a concrete skeleton of a church that villagers have been building for two years in this small pocket of southeast Myanmar. The construction work has been a slow undertaking, said 21-year-old Zayar, a member of Myanmar’s Muslim community who moved from

Taiwan’s security chief’s Thai visit leaked on social media in ‘cognitive warfare’ — Radio Free Asia

On Sept. 12, 2022, a Twitter account posted photos of Chen Ming-tong's customs clearance, flight information and hotel receipts. Credit: Screenshot from Twitter

Taiwan has dismissed social media posts leaking sensitive details of an alleged trip by its national security director to Thailand as ‘cognitive warfare.’ A Twitter account using the handle @andreny45652235 tweeted on Sept. 12 a claim that Chen Ming-tong had been in Thailand for purposes of tourism, but at taxpayers’ expense. The tweet included photos

Thai police go after loan sharks preying on vulnerable people amid pandemic — Radio Free Asia

Police brief reporters on the largest syndicate running illegal money-lending services in Bangkok, July 12, 2022. Credit: Handout photo/ Economic Crime Suppression Division

Napawan Rimwaan used a phone app to borrow 2,000 baht (U.S. $55), believing it was an interest-free loan that she could pay back in 90 days.   A week later, an agent from the lending agency started calling and threatening the Thai mother of two to repay the loan – along with a 31 percent interest

Thai opposition seeks to strip Senate of powers to pick next prime minister

Thailand’s opposition and civil society have made five attempts since 2020 to erase the Senate’s voting power from the constitution, which was largely viewed by experts as a means to cement the army’s grip on power. | AFP-JIJI

Thailand’s opposition parties are making another attempt to strip the junta-appointed Senate of powers to elect the next prime minister before the national vote likely to be held early next year. Lawmakers were set to vote late Wednesday on a raft of proposals to amend the 2017 military-backed constitution. A key motion seeks to remove

Court charges 4 Thai ex-park officials in Karen activist’s 2014 murder — Radio Free Asia

Karen activists hold signs and pictures during a rally calling on Thai authorities to speed up the investigation into their missing colleague, Porlajee Rakchongcharoen outside the governor's office in Chiang Mai, northern Thailand, April 22, 2014. Credit: AP Photo

A Thai court formally charged a former senior park ranger and three subordinates suspected of killing an ethnic Karen activist eight years ago before it released them on bail, a move that human rights defenders criticized on Tuesday. Former chief ranger Chaiwat Limlikhit-akson and his former staffers at Kaeng Krachan National Park pleaded not guilty

ASEAN 6 GDP Growth Rate (First Half 2022) | ASEAN 6 Real GDP Growth Rate | Facts Nerd

ASEAN 6 GDP Growth Rate 2022 ASEAN 6 GDP Growth Rate – First Half 2022 ASEAN 6 Real GDP Growth Rate ASEAN 6 is comprised of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietnam. In this video, you’re going to see the actual GDP Growth Rate of ASEAN 6 economies in the first half of

‘Hungry river’ phenomenon to blame for severe erosion of Mekong River banks in Laos — Radio Free Asia

Land subsidence from erosion has cracked this road near the bank of the Mekong River in Paksan, Bolikhamxay province, central Laos, July 16, 2022. Credit: RFA

Upstream dams and sand mining have caused significant erosion along the Mekong River in western Laos, according to experts, devastating riparian communities in the impoverished Southeast Asian nation with high waters and powerful currents. But residents of those communities say they believe that other issues are to blame. Brian Eyler, director of the Southeast Asia

US ambassador-nominee to Bangkok promises to help Thais pressure Burmese junta — Radio Free Asia

Then-U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Robert Godec (left) helps his wife, Lorri Godec Magnusson, hold a candle during the 20th commemoration of the 1998 bombing of the U.S Embassy in Nairobi, Aug. 7, 2018. Mrs. Godec was left paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair after the bombing. Credit: AP

The Biden administration’s nominee for U.S. ambassador to Thailand told a Senate committee Wednesday that he would press Bangkok to reduce its dependence on oil and gas from neighboring Myanmar, where the ruling military junta is committing “horrifying atrocities.” Robert F. Godec made the pledge in response to a question from Sen. Ed Markey, who,

Low wages and soaring inflation push Laotians to Thailand — Radio Free Asia

Laotians wait to submit passport applications to the Consular Department at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane, Laos, June 10, 2022. Credit: RFA

Hundreds of Laotians are lining up daily outside the Lao Ministry of Foreign Affairs in Vientiane to apply for or renew passports so they can go to neighboring Thailand, where they hope to find better paying jobs and escape crippling inflation at home. Laotians say it has become increasingly difficult to eke out a living

ASEAN states unlikely to choose sides between US and China, say officials and experts — Radio Free Asia

Cambodian Minister of Defense Tea Banh and Chinese Ambassador Wang Wentian are seen swimming following Ream Base groundbreaking ceremony in Sihanoukville. Credit: Tea Banh’s Facebook page.

When Cambodia’s Minister of National Defense General Tea Banh was seen taking a leisurely dip in the Gulf of Thailand with Chinese Ambassador Wang Wentian after a ribbon-cutting ceremony for a Cambodian naval base being built with China’s help earlier this month, no one in the region batted an eyelid.  As U.S.-China friction is getting

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