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Myanmar’s ousted leader was reportedly whisked out of jail during a heatwave.

The key border town was ‘liberated’ by Myanmar’s anti-coup fighters, but the story is far more complex.

-Armed soldiers loyal to a turncoat warlord patrol the streets of southeastern Myanmars frontier town of Myawaddy, as troops of the ruling junta and rebels jostle for control of the... -April 25, 2024 at 07:22 am EDT - MarketScreener

(Reuters) -- An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling ju

(Reuters) -- An armed ethnic group in Myanmar has withdrawn its troops from a town along the Thai border following a counteroffensive by the ruling ju

January 24, 2024. (Karen Information Center/ Thanlwin Times and editors) Even the personal visit of the Junta Deputy Commander-in-Chief Vice Senior General Soe Win to Hpa-An Township to plead with Border Guard Force (BGF) leaders to continue their role as a proxy militia in Myawaddy, failed to reverse the BGF decision to declare an autonomous zone in Karen State, no longer

Observers say the move diminishes the military’s power and the junta’s influence on ethnic groups.

In the fractured authority surrounding crime-group controlled enclaves on the Moei River separating Thailand and Myanmar, this is what a crackdown on armed gangsters looks like: China presses Myanmar’s military junta — a sometimes client of Beijing — to make Thailand cut electric power to a large gambling and fraud hub run by Chinese crime syndicates across the river in Myanmar. The military-supervised Border Guard Force in the area, a partner of the syndicates, responds with threats to sh...

Thailand Police arrested Chinese businessman, She Zhijiang for running an illegal online casino.

Thailand Police arrested Chinese businessman, She Zhijiang for running an illegal online casino.