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Myanmar’s New Taxation and Conscription Policies Are Likely to Increase Irregular Migration

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Myanmar’s New Taxation and Conscription Policies Are Likely to Increase Irregular Migration

As Myanmar grapples with ongoing political turmoil, recent directives have exacerbated the challenges faced by its citizens. The enforcement of conscription laws and the imposition of new taxation and remittance regulations have intensified pressures on the people of Myanmar, and will potentially drive more toward irregular migration. This article delves into the far-reaching consequences of … Read more

Life Along the Thai-Myanmar Frontier

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Life Along the Thai-Myanmar Frontier

Anti-regime militias have captured Myawaddy – a strategically important border city and home to about 200,000 people – from Myanmar’s ruling junta. The Karen National Union (KNU) is now in control of most of Karen state and is urging direct talks with the Thais across the frontier. The KNU is one of about 20 ethnic … Read more

Ethnic Karen Rebels Complete Capture of Strategic Myanmar Border Crossing

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Ethnic Karen Rebels Complete Capture of Strategic Myanmar Border Crossing

Ethnic Karen rebels and their allies claim to have captured an important trade hub on the Thai border in southeastern Myanmar, despite a last-ditch effort by the Myanmar military to prevent the town’s fall. In a statement today, the Karen National Union (KNU) announced that its armed wing, the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA), and … Read more

Thailand Ready to Accept 100,000 Refugees, Foreign Minister Says

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Myanmar Humanitarian Corridor to Be Established Soon, Thai FM Says

Thailand is prepared to accept up to 100,000 people from the conflict-torn Karen State in neighboring Myanmar, its foreign minister said yesterday, as ethnic Karen rebels closed in on the town of Myawaddy on the Thai border. Late last week, the Karen National Union (KNU) announced that it and allied anti-regime militias had overrun a … Read more

Thailand Confirms Myanmar Military Evacuation Flight Request After Latest Resistance Gains

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Indonesia Rescues 20 from Traffickers in Myanmar

Thailand yesterday confirmed that it had granted permission for Myanmar’s military junta to land three flights in the border town of Mae Sot to evacuate military personnel and civil servants fleeing resistance attacks in Karen State. In a statement released yesterday, the Ministry said that it had received a request from the Myanmar embassy  “to … Read more

Southeast Asians Don’t Really Care About the Myanmar Crisis

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3 Years Since Myanmar’s Coup, Stronger Global Action Is Needed

The ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute’s annual State of Southeast Asian survey dropped last week, heady times for an overstretched columnist. Not so positive, however, if you’re busy battling a barbarous military junta and are looking around for a bit of moral support from your fellow Southeast Asians. Let’s turn to page 16 of the survey report. … Read more

Myanmar Rebels on Verge of Seizing Key Border Town, Report Claims

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Myanmar Rebels on Verge of Seizing Key Border Town, Report Claims

Ethnic Karen rebels in eastern Myanmar claim to have seized control of part of the town of Myawaddy on the country’s border with Thailand, inflicting another serious debacle on the military junta. On Friday, according to a BBC report, the Karen National Union (KNU) announced that it had accepted the surrender of a battalion based … Read more

Myanmar Resistance Forces Launch Drone Attack on Capital

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Myanmar Resistance Forces Launch Drone Attack on Capital

Resistance forces in Myanmar have launched audacious drone attacks on the capital Naypyidaw, the nerve-center of the military junta, though opposition and military sources offered differing accounts of the attack. Reuters cited a report from the military-run Myawaddy TV station claiming that an attempt by “terrorists” to destroy “important locations” in Naypyidaw had been foiled. … Read more

Myanmar’s Intensifying Conflict Taking Massive Rights Toll: UN

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Myanmar’s NUG Condemns Military Conscription Drive, Vows to Resist

Myanmar’s escalating conflict and the worst violence since the military takeover in 2021 are having a devastating impact on human rights, fundamental freedoms and basic needs of millions of people – as well as “alarming spillover effects” in the region, U.N. officials said Thursday. Assistant Secretary-General for Political Affairs Khaled Khiari told the U.N. Security … Read more

Myanmar Asylum Seeker Crisis Needs a Humane and Regional Solution

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Myanmar Asylum Seeker Crisis Needs a Humane and Regional Solution

More deaths at sea, another capsized boat and more tragedy. This time it is Rohingya fleeing either persecution in Myanmar or unlivable conditions in makeshift camps outside the country.  Seventy deaths and counting from the latest incident alone.  The trendline for Rohingya escaping on boats to head for places like Indonesia or Australia is showing … Read more