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SE Asian nations to express ‘concern’over US tariffs
A spokesperson for the military regime in Myanmar, which will be subject to a 40 percent tariff, expressed hope that trade negotiations requested by US President Donald Trump would benefit both countries
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Myanmar clashes force thousands to flee to India
The refugees have been displaced by battles in Myanmar’s sparsely populated, northwestern Chin State, which are mostly between rival anti-junta groups
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Myanmar armed groups rebuff junta’s “cooperation” appeal
Myanmar’s junta on Saturday made a rare call for the armed groups it is fighting to cooperate with it ahead of a slated election, an invitation anti-coup forces swiftly rejected. The unexpected appeal comes as the junta continues to suffer major battlefield reverses to ethnic minority armed groups and pro-democracy People’s Defence Forces (PDF) that rose up to oppose its seizure of power in 2021. “If the armed groups… choose to legally establish themselves within the framework of the law and cooperate hand in hand with the government… the government will welcome and accept this,” the military said in a statement published by junta media The Global New Light of Myanmar. The National Unity Government, a body dominated by ousted lawmakers working to reverse the coup, said the junta announcement was “a strategy filled with deception aimed at legitimising their power-consolidating sham election and attempting to divide and weaken” its opponents. The military ousted Aung San Suu Kyi’s elected civilian government in February 2021, triggering mass protests that were met with a brutal crackdown. Civilians set up PDFs to fight back and ethnic minority armed groups—many of which have fought the military for decades—were reinvigorated, plunging the country into civil…
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Making connections in Myanmar’s fractured state
Across the country, a generation grown accustomed to internet access seeks ways to resist the slide back into digital darkness
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Indonesian influencer given 7-year Myanmar prison sentence
Social media posts showed the 33-year-old Indonesian national, whom military authorities arrested in December, posing in photos with members of anti-junta armed groups
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