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For border-crossing Thai tigers, the forest on the other side isn’t as green by Carolyn Cowan on 3 February 2021 Straddling the Myanmar-Thai border, the Dawna Tenasserim Landscape (DTL) is the intersection of four different biogeographic zones and consequently supports rich species diversity. The ecosystem is particularly important for the survival of Southeast Asia’s big cats, including the Indochinese tiger. Large, wide-ranging species like tigers require connected networks of forests to move and disperse through; the species cannot thrive in isolated pockets of protected forest. Effor...

Sunday, 31 January 2021, 4:15 pm IPMSDL message of solidarity on the 72nd Karen Revolution The International Indigenous People’s Movement for Self-determination and Liberation (IPMSDL) celebrates with the Karen people in honoring the enduring struggle of Indigenous communities and organizations in the 72nd year of Karen Revolution. IPMSDL expresses its solidarity to the Karen Revolution,the historic fight that until today continues to assert the independence of a Karen State (Kawthoolei). We salute the Karen peoples’ resolute courage and the global unity it has generated in asserting the...

December 24, 2015 In China's Yunnan province, the Salween River is known as the Nujiang (怒江). It gives its name to the province's westernmost prefecture and derives from the name of the earliest inhabitants of the valley — the Nu minority. In their own language nu means 'dark'. So it's the dark people and the dark river. But the Chinese character used to represent nu is the word for 'angry'. It may be the wrong choice for designating the people, for they are a small, placid and easy-going ethnic group, much outnumbered by the Black Lisu, who make up the majority of the prefecture's po...

When few bridges crossed the Nu River, locals found a creative way to transport themselves, their children, and their livestock over its rushing waters.

The Day the Burma Road Between Myanmar and China Opened The Day the Burma Road Between Myanmar and China Opened Somewhere on the Burma Road / US Army Center of Military History / public domain via Wikimedia Commons 2.1k By Wei Yan Aung 10 January 2021 YANGON—On this day in 1939, the Burma Road, a transport route linking Myanmar (then Burma) with southwest China was officially opened. It was built while Myanmar was a British colony to convey military supplies from Britain and the US to Chiang Kai-shek’s nationalist government of China, which was at war with invading Japanese forces. The ...