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Displaced Children in Arakan State Malnourished

Source: Development Media Group

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 9:32 a.m.

An aid worker from Gwa Town in southern Arakan State said to DMG: “War-displaced children don’t get enough to eat, which weakens their immune systems. Some become so sick that they end up bedridden.

Development Media Group

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Don’t forget refugees as war continues to ravage Myanmar

Source: Development Policy Centre, Australian National University

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 9:05 a.m.

The Mae La refugee camp was first established 40 years ago on the Thai-Myanmar border, and today many refugees living there do not know life anywhere else

Naomi Brooks

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2025: A Pivotal Year For Myanmar – OpEd

Source: Eurasia Review

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 9:02 a.m.

This historic, nationwide resistance by all ethnic groups is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to expel the primary source of instability and atrocities, and it cannot be missed. 

Nicholas Kong, Myanmar democracy activist

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Border Crackdown on Organised Crime Puts Vulnerable Myanmar Population in Thailand at Risk

Source: FULCRUM

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 8:49 a.m.

The authorities of affected countries should crack down on crime at the Thailand-Myanmar border. However, they should also consider what the human cost of such policing might be for thousands of displaced and vulnerable Myanmar citizens.

Nyi Nyi Kyaw, Marie Curie Research Fellow at the School of Sociology, Politics and International Studies at the University of Bristol

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Mon State Military Junta Begins Preparations for Elections

Source: Independent Mon News Agency

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 8:30 a.m.

Election observers are reporting that the Mon State Military Junta has begun preparations for voter registration for the upcoming elections.

Independent Mon News Agency

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Myanmar Junta Pushes Spurious Claim Its Planned Vote Has Global Backing

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 8:26 a.m.

The chief of Myanmar’s diplomatically isolated regime, Min Aung Hlaing, boasted at Friday’s meeting of the National Defense and Security Council (NDSC) that the international community fully supports the election he is organizing.

Maung KAVI | Irrawaddy

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Mae Sot doctor threatens to resign if forced to treat refugees

Source: The Nation

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 8:16 a.m.

Dr Nuttagarn Chuenchom argued that the refugee situation should be treated as a national issue rather than being left to the provincial health office or local hospitals to manage.

The Nation

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Thailand pulling the plug on scam gangs in Myanmar

Source: Bangkok Post

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:48 a.m.

Electricity, internet and fuel supply to end on Wednesday in five areas where gangs operate

Post Reporters

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Sagaing’s Wetlet Starves Amid Junta Blockade

Source: Irrawaddy

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:19 a.m.

Around 150 junta personnel—including 50 soldiers, local police, junta-aligned militias, and civil servants given military training—are deployed to cut the town off from surrounding villages that are controlled by anti-regime forces

Irrawaddy

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Nay Pyi Taw's goals still out of reach

Source: Bangkok Post

Published on Feb. 4, 2025, 7:06 a.m.

Who knows? In the coming months, shifting dynamics could either make or break the regime.

Kavi Chongkittavorn, veteran journalist on regional affairs

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