In-Depth
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In India’s Mizoram, programs for Myanmar refugees struggle to survive amid US aid cuts
The Trump administration’s decision to abruptly end US support for refugees is dramatically reshaping the humanitarian landscape along the Indo-Myanmar border
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Willing participants: The young people of Myanmar joining scam syndicates by choice
A career in the criminal industry of online fraud—known locally as “Kyar Phyant”—has become an alluring option for many of Myanmar’s young people, who say they were not coerced into it but voluntarily sought it out for the potential income
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New limits on movement upend lives, long-held traditions on India-Myanmar border
Ending practices of free movement in one of the world’s most underdeveloped border regions has impacted livelihoods and threatened age-old cultural connections among communities in northeast India and neighbouring parts of Myanmar
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Fear, mistrust grow as India collects biometrics from Myanmar refugees
Moves to begin collecting face scans, fingerprints, and other data are adding to concerns over the Indian government’s close ties to the Myanmar regime
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Khin Yi’s conflict of interest
Following the earthquake that devastated central Myanmar in March, the military’s proxy Union Solidarity and Development Party is paying billions of kyat to a company directed by its chairman’s own son to reconstruct its headquarters in Naypyitaw