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Myanmar
Struggling to maintain order, junta replaces Kokang leader with brigadier general
While fending off anti-junta forces’ advance towards the Kokang capital of Laukkai, the junta is under mounting pressure from China to take decisive action against criminal organisations running online scam networks from the autonomous region
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Chinese arrest warrants add to pressure on Myanmar junta
The warrants, against four individuals with ties to the regime, are the latest sign of Beijing’s growing impatience with lawlessness along the two countries’ shared border
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Military-backed USDP holds ‘weapons-granting ceremony’ in Naypyitaw
One of the retired generals who took part in the ceremony told Myanmar Now that it was held to “raise awareness” among pro-junta members of the public
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Myanmar military proxy party gears up for electoral campaign in Rakhine State
Analysts speculate that the junta may be trying to ‘win’ an election by exploiting a law which does not recognise a minimum number of voters required for legitimacy
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USDP district chair assassinated in Karen State
The victim, shot four times at his home, also served as a junta-appointed village administrator in the initial months following the 2021 coup
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