News About Myanmar

Mizzima On 17 November, the Myanmar Labor Alliance (MLA) issued a statement welcoming the United States Government’s creation of a Scam Center Strike Force, an initiative targeting transnational cyber-scam and human-trafficking networks operating in Laos, Cambodia, and Myanmar. The statement is as follows. We commend this decisive action, which reflects growing international recognition of the urgent need to protect vulnerable populations and dismantle exploitative systems no

Amid the drumbeats of military conflict with Cambodia, Thailand’s political environment is evidently unruly and unsettled. The minority government of Anutin Charnvirakul, the third prime minister from the third largest-winning party since the latest national election in May 2023, is hard-pressed to stay in office beyond the four-month “Memorandum of Agreement” between his Bhumjaithai Party (BJT) and the People’s Party (PP), the largest camp in the national assembly. As pressu

While China and Singapore remain the largest investors in Myanmar, inflows from all countries have declined significantly since the elected National League for Democracy government’s ouste

he incoming ASEAN chair, the Philippines, will continue with Malaysia’s strategy on the Myanmar crisis, as the regional bloc remains undecided on sending observers to the regime’s 2025-26 elections. The Philippines will maintain the current approach to the Myanmar crisis when it assumes the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Jan. 1, 2026, according to its Department of Foreign Affairs. “Malaysia had about 117 engagements, and we are of the view tha

Ta’ang National Liberation Army to ‘escort’ military into Mogok Residents of Mogok Township in Mandalay Region told DVB that the Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA) informed its allied resistance forces, including the People’s Defence Force (PDF), that it will escort regime forces into the town when it completes its withdrawal on Nov. 29.  “The TNLA informed us that it’ll bring in regime forces and withdraw from the town once they’re settled. I think that it will keep a li

The incoming ASEAN chair, the Philippines, will continue with Malaysia’s strategy on the Myanmar crisis, as the regional bloc remains undecided on sending observers to the regime’s 2025-26 elections. The Philippines will maintain the current approach to the Myanmar crisis when it assumes the chair of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) on Jan. 1, 2026, according to its Department of Foreign Affairs. “Malaysia had about 117 engagements, and we are of the view th