Just 15 years after its founding, the Arakan Army (AA) has risen to dominate Rakhine state in western Myanmar, controlling 15 of 17 key townships and over 90% of the territory, including the entire 271-kilometer […]
On the Thai-Myanmar border, sick patients are being sent home from hospital. In Laos, school meals have been interrupted. And in Cambodia, hundreds of staff at the agency responsible for clearing land mines have been […]
Both the Indian Air Force and Pakistan Air Force envisioned something similar. IAF wants to replace the MiG-21, and PAF wants to replace the F-7 (reversed-engineered MiG-21). The competition between both nations has seen worse […]
The Myanmar military junta has declared the JF-17 Thunder fighter planes supplied by Pakistan as unfit for operations. The Burmese Air Force was forced to ground the aircraft due to malfunctions and structural flaws. This […]
Russia and Myanmar are under severe international sanctions. Russia cannot accept payments through Chinese banks using Chinese currency as Chinese banks no longer facilite foreign currency trading with Russia. Burma sent elephants to Russia in […]
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Bangladesh’s Sheikh Hasina long ignored the democratic backsliding in each other’s countries to forge close ties. With Hasina ousted from power, India’s warnings over the safety of Bangladesh’s Hindu […]
Thaw Hti was a speck amid a march of hundreds of thousands that snaked its way through the streets of Yangon in 2021, demanding a return to democracy after the Myanmar military seized power. “We had […]
Indian arms manufacturing company Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) has continued selling military end-use material and technology to the illegal Myanmar military junta, according to Indian export records analysed by Justice For Myanmar. Myanmar has inaugurated […]
Amid escalating conflict between the junta government and the rebel Arakan Army in Myanmar, approximately 60,000 Rohingya entered Bangladesh in the last two months, reported Anadolu Agency, quoting a Bangladeshi official on Sunday. An ethnic […]
Nearly five years after Myanmar’s civil war began, the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Karim Khan, has requested an arrest warrant for the leader of the country’s military regime, Min Aung Hlaing. […]
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