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Individuals seeking to cross the Myawaddy-Mae Sot No. 1 Friendship Bridge on the Thailand-Myanmar border will be permitted access to the Thai side will only be permitted if temporarily surrender their national identification cards (NRCs) to Myanmar border authorities. "Residents who frequently traverse the bridge may be exempted; however individuals arriving from other regions

World War II PoW Jack Jennings lived for almost half a century without speaking of the horrors he witnessed on the Thai-Burma 'death railway' where 12,000 people died

The slave labourer for the Japanese died on January 19th, aged 104 | Obituary

In interviews and in written testimonies, soldiers who surrendered or defected from the Myanmar military painted the image of an overstretched armed force in retreat.

A woman from Kayokepi village, Thanbyuzayat township, Mon state, suffered serious leg injuries from a landmine explosion on February 7th, according to local residents. At around 3:00 p.m. on 8 February, Daw Ma Lay from Kayokepi village was collecting firewood at a rubber plantation near the village when she stepped on a landmine. “Daw Ma Lay's left leg was severely injured.

YANGON, Feb. 9 (Xinhua) -- Myanmar's first vocational training center for ethnic community under the Lancang-Mekong Cooperation (LMC) Special Fund (2022) will promote socio-economic lives of ethnic peoples, U Min Aye Ko, director general of the department of ethnic rights under the ethnic affairs ministry, told Xinhua on Friday.

The military junta that ousted the elected government on Feb. 1, 2021 has less and less to show for its coup.

In Mon State, Ye township, residents are worried with news of city-wide battles. Revolutionary forces based in Ye township announced at the beginning of the year that they will step up their military offensives in 2024 and take over the town and military camps. Military junta camps and checkpoints in Ye township have been under continuous attack. Local people have been told

Towns and cities empty during protest on anniversary of military takeover and arrest of Aung San Suu Kyi

Junta’s vast programme of building prisons and labour camps raises fears of intensified crackdown against country’s pro-democracy movement