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Midwives review – a Muslim and a Buddhist grapple with childbirth in strife-torn Myanmar

Sombre documentary shot over five years follows two healthcare workers as they deliver babies in a brutally divided society

The Guardian - UK

95 illegal migrants arrested on western border

KANCHANABURI: Ninety-five Myanmar migrants were arrested by Thai authorities after they illegally crossed the border into this western border province on Wednesday morning.

Bangkok Post

Two van loads of illegal migrants caught in Phatthalung

PHATTHALUNG: Highway police arrested 71 illegal Myanmar migrants travelling in two vans that were stopped and searched in Muang district on Monday.

Bangkok Post

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Kamnan arrested for smuggling Chinese men

CHIANG RAI: A kamnan, or tambon chief, in Mae Fah Luang district of this northern border province was arrested while transporting nine Chinese men who had illegally entered the country from Myanmar, police reported.

Bangkok Post

Myanmar beauty queen granted asylum in Canada

A former Myanmar beauty queen held at Suvarnabhumi airport after she was barred from entering the country last week has been granted refugee status in Canada.

Bangkok Post

US expands, extends Myanmar immigration status to May 2024

The Biden administration has expanded and extended temporary legal status for several thousand people from Myanmar living in the U.S. until May 2024

The Independent UK

Aussie ties out of the woods, raring to go

'Thais that bind: secret mission ends Aussie's torment," read the front page headline of The Australian on Nov 22, 2020. It was referring to Dr Kylie Moore-Gilbert, the British-Australian academic arrested in late 2018 by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard as she was about to leave Tehran over an espionage charge.…

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Myanmar beauty queen who criticised junta granted asylum

A former Myanmar beauty queen detained at Suvarnabhumi airport after she was barred from entering the country last week has been granted refugee status in Canada.

Bangkok Post

Bridging the gap

Cross-border trade between Thailand and neighbouring countries is thriving, thanks in part to expanded infrastructure connectivity.

Bangkok Post

Over 40,000 refugees from Myanmar based in 60 camps set up in Mizoram, says Rajya Sabha MP

The parliamentarian said that the State government has registered around 30,000 refugees and there were close to 60 camps where the refugees were staying in

The Hindu

Han Lay drama brings crisis home

Since the political turmoil in Myanmar unfolded two years ago, the resulting catastrophe has remained largely contained within its border. However, recent developments have shown the crisis is now just around the corner, and as such, the Thai government's inaction, as well as the wider Asean community's lack of real…

Bangkok Post

Live updates: U.N. General Assembly

Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina says she wants an immediate end to the war in Ukraine, as well as the related sanctions, for the sake of lives and livelihoods of the people across the world

The Independent UK

Malaysian PM laments lack of UN action on Myanmar crisis

Thousands have been killed since Myanmar’s military seized power in February 2021 from Aung San Suu Kyi’s government.

Al Jazeera

Tycoon's assets under probe

The Office of the Narcotics Control Board (ONCB) is examining assets confiscated from Myanmar tycoon Tun Min Latt who was arrested in Bangkok last Saturday on charges of conspiring to traffic narcotics and money laundering as it widens its net on a drug ring.

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Former Myanmar beauty queen 'not sent back'

Former Myanmar beauty queen, Thaw Nandar Aung, aka Han Lay, was on Friday relieved to learn that she will not be sent back to Myanmar.

The Independent UK

Model who criticized Myanmar's military fears repatriation

A model from Myanmar denounced her country’s military rulers last year from the stage of a beauty pageant in Thailand

France 24

Inside Myanmar's enduring resistance movement

On February 1, 2021, the Burmese army retook power, brutally ending a decades-long period of democracy. In the space of a few months, thousands of civilians were killed and thousands more thrown into prison. A shadow government was quickly formed, but armed resistance also got organised in a country cut…

Al Jazeera

Tensions as Bangladesh accuses Myanmar of firing in its territory

Weeks of firing escalates tensions between the neighbours, raising concerns of new Rohingya exodus into Bangladesh.

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Myanmar beauty queen stuck in airport limbo

A beauty queen who spoke out against Myanmar’s military rulers remained stranded at Suvarnabhumi airport for a third day on Friday, hoping to be granted entry, as activists and her employer urged authorities not to send her back to her homeland.

Reuters

Myanmar beauty queen in Thai airport limbo, fears arrest at home

A beauty queen who spoke out against Myanmar's military rulers was stranded at Thailand's international airport for a third day on Friday, hoping to be granted entry, as activists and her employer urged authorities not to send her back to her homeland.

Al Jazeera

Myanmar civil society tells UN to stop giving regime ‘legitimacy’

UN chief Antonio Guterres told UN agencies ‘must stop’ presenting credentials and signing agreements with coup leaders.

ABC News

Australian economist Sean Turnell's fate in secret Myanmar trial to be known next week, reports say

Supporters of Australian advisor to former leader Aung San Suu Kyi, Sean Turnell, are hopeful of his possible release as his secret trial concludes.

Bangkok Post

Asean foreign ministers to meet next month in Jakarta

Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) will gather in Jakarta next month to narrow topics to be discussed at the group's summit in November, the Indonesian government said Friday.

The Guardian - AU

Myanmar model who criticised junta stuck in limbo after being denied entry to Thailand

Han Lay appealed for help on social media after being stopped at Bangkok airport, saying Myanmar police there want to speak to her

Al Jazeera

UN told Myanmar has gone from ‘bad to worse to horrific’

Special Rapporteur Tom Andrews says Myanmar people are frustrated with an international community they feel has failed.

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