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Military clashes w/Karen forces while advancing near Thai / Myanmar border: While junta forces have been regaining ground in Karen State, anti-junta forces said they were still fending off assaults on the newly developed town of Lay Kay Kaw and still controlled the road between Myawaddy and Waw Lay Myaing

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I cast my vote for the National League for Democracy (NLD) in 2020 GE. & When, in the wake of the coup, the National Unity Govt (NUG) emerged, I stood behind it without hesitation. To be sure, there r flaws from beginning. But I was confident they would address them. When lives are under constant threat with insecurity for 4 years, is it not reasonable for citizen to expect a better performance from a govt he supports?
When calls for reform grew louder —especially from prominent voices like Dr. Tayzar San—I therefore on tenterhooks to see how NUG would respond. As someone who follows politics closely, I began collecting critiques, not to undermine, but to understand. I trying to figure out what matters most now.

Reaon Response to criticism
Criticism accompanied NUG since its inception. But when someone as prominent as Dr. Tayzar San voices concern, it resonates more widely when people are desperate for direction, the urgency is amplified...
https://www.irrawaddy.com/opinion/guest-...eform.html

I oni see Putin GE is (1) one-man show.

Even the Russia want to Observe Myanmar Junta’s December Election.

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I oni see Putin GE is (1) one-man show.

Even the Russia want to Observe Myanmar Junta’s December Election.

Laugh, if u can try to laugh out

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Oni Putin GE is (1) one-man show

Even the Russia want to Observe Myanmar Junta’s December Election.

This is what Putin want...to watch only.

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Myanmar earthquake: North-East region hit 4.7 magnitude tremors felt across Assam, Manipur.. https://share.google/J22qhwuUaEuMO8Ukv

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 01, 2025
PM Anutin allows Myanmar refugees to work in Thailand, stressing a humanitarian approach and sending a message to Cambodia over labour reliance. Anutin Charnvirakul on Wednesday marked first day of a new policy allowing Myanmar refugees to work in Thailand by sending a strong message to Cambodia tha country would not face a labour shortage without Cambodian workers. The Cabinet resolution, which came into effect on Wednesday, permits Myanmar refugees to leave their camps and work as labourers for up to one year. “This D-Day is significant in showing the international community that we have a humanitarian approach to refugees,” Anutin said. “Anyone who meets our regulations, conditions, and complies with the law will be given the opportunity to work.”

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BEIJING: A Chinese court sentenced to death on Monday (Sep 29) 16 members of a family-run criminal gang that established deadly scam centres in Myanmar's Kokang region on the border with China, among other crimes.
Scam compounds have flourished in Myanmar's lawless borderlands, staffed by foreigners – many of them Chinese – who say they were trafficked and forced to swindle people online, part of a multibillion-dollar illicit industry. Beijing has stepped up cooperation with Southeast Asian nations in recent months to crack down on the compounds, and thousands of people have been repatriated to China. The Wenzhou Intermediate People's Court said on Monday that a family-run criminal organisation had engaged in cyber fraud, drug trafficking, organising prostitution, setting up casinos, and other crimes from 2015.

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Aung San Suu Kyi's son seeks China's help to secure her release from Myanmar jail.

South China Morning Post. For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the spotlight and kept his silence.

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Aung San Suu Kyi's son seeks China's help to secure her release from Myanmar jail.

South China Morning Post. For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the spotlight and kept his silence.

He avoided the media even as they sought him out, snapping his pictures in a frenzy during those rare times when he was allowed to visit his famous mother in Myanmar.But following the 2021 coup that saw the military junta jail his mother, London-based Aris reluctantly stepped forward to speak out in the hope of alerting the world to her worsening heart problems and dire prison conditions.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/aung...00887.html

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Aung San Suu Kyi's son seeks China's help to secure her release from Myanmar jail.

South China Morning Post. For much of his life, Kim Aris, 48, the younger son of Myanmar's detained pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi, stayed out of the spotlight and kept his silence.

Suu Kyi, 80, has spent a total of 19 years in detention since 1989, first under house arrest and now in solitary confinement in prison. She is the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, which her sons accepted on her behalf. "I appeal to President Xi Jinping to call for her release and to do more to put pressure on the junta ... to make sure that those who should be freed are freed," Aris said.

"China has been calling for May May's release, according to my sources," he continued, using the Burmese term for mother. Aris said he believed that Chinese officials "want to see her as much as anyone else and they have been asking for access". Chinese officials "have not been given access to her, as far as I am aware, just as nobody else has", he added.

Aris invited anyone outside the prison to try to see her, for "then at least someone could confirm she is alive". "I worry all the time that my mother might die in prison. The conditions in prison are horrendous." In August, a report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, a UN body, said victims in the country's detention facilities endured beatings, electric shocks, gang rape, strangulation & other forms of torture, such as removal of fingernails with pliers, according to Reuters. Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government said that if Suu Kyi remained imprisoned or died in detention, the country's crisis would deepen. "It will harden divisions, prolong the conflict and make national reconciliation far more difficult," said Sasa, the NUG's minister for international cooperation, who, like many Burmese, goes by one name.

"Her absence would fuel further instability, creating ripple effects across Southeast Asia, including larger refugee flows, greater humanitarian costs and a weakened Asean role in regional peace," Sasa added, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Aris said he wanted "to see his mother again in person". The two have been separated since he was 11, when she went to Yangon, then the country's capital, to nurse her dying mother in 1988. Suu Kyi was later placed under house arrest for leading the opposition against junta country's generals.

Aris said he believed Suu Kyi had "a better relationship with China" than junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup against his mother and her ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party. "My mother and the NLD had a good, productive working relationship with China before the coup," Aris said. "She was trying to develop relationship which she realised was very significant for her country." "Things were developing in Burma, and China could do business with Burma and trust that those business interests would see fruition of some sort and not be destroyed by other people's greed," he added, referring to Myanmar's former name. Xi & Suu Kyi met in 2020 during his 2-days state visit to Myanmar. Visit resulted in 33 agreements to shore up key projects formed part of the Belt and Road Initiative, China's plan to grow global trade.

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Suu Kyi, 80, has spent a total of 19 years in detention since 1989, first under house arrest and now in solitary confinement in prison. She is the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Peace Prize, which her sons accepted on her behalf. "I appeal to President Xi Jinping to call for her release and to do more to put pressure on the junta ... to make sure that those who should be freed are freed," Aris said.

"China has been calling for May May's release, according to my sources," he continued, using the Burmese term for mother. Aris said he believed that Chinese officials "want to see her as much as anyone else and they have been asking for access". Chinese officials "have not been given access to her, as far as I am aware, just as nobody else has", he added.

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. "I worry all the time that my mother might die in prison. The conditions in prison are horrendous." In August, a report by the Independent Investigative Mechanism for Myanmar, a UN body, said victims in the country's detention facilities endured beatings, electric shocks, gang rape, strangulation & other forms of torture, such as removal of fingernails with pliers, according to Reuters. Myanmar's shadow National Unity Government said that if Suu Kyi remained imprisoned or died in detention, the country's crisis would deepen. "It will harden divisions, prolong the conflict and make national reconciliation far more difficult," said Sasa, the NUG's minister for international cooperation, who, like many Burmese, goes by one name.

"Her absence would fuel further instability, creating ripple effects across Southeast Asia, including larger refugee flows, greater humanitarian costs and a weakened Asean role in regional peace," Sasa added, referring to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. Aris said he wanted "to see his mother again in person". The two have been separated since he was 11, when she went to Yangon, then the country's capital, to nurse her dying mother in 1988. Suu Kyi was later placed under house arrest for leading the opposition against junta country's generals.

Aris said he believed Suu Kyi had "a better relationship with China" than junta leader Min Aung Hlaing, who led the coup against his mother and her ruling National League for Democracy (NLD) party. "My mother and the NLD had a good, productive working relationship with China before the coup," Aris said. "She was trying to develop relationship which she realised was very significant for her country." "Things were developing in Burma, and China could do business with Burma and trust that those business interests would see fruition of some sort and not be destroyed by other people's greed," he added, referring to Myanmar's former name. Xi & Suu Kyi met in 2020 during his 2-days state visit to Myanmar. Visit resulted in 33 agreements to shore up key projects formed part of the Belt and Road Initiative, China's plan to grow global trade.

Aung San Suu Kyi’s son seeks China’s help to secure her release from Myanmar jail.
Kim Aris says Beijing would benefit from such a move, given its extensive investments in the war-torn, junta-led Southeast Asian country.

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Aung San Suu Kyi’s son seeks China’s help to secure her release from Myanmar jail.
Kim Aris says Beijing would benefit from such a move, given its extensive investments in the war-torn, junta-led Southeast Asian country.

He is a Brits. His mother is anti-China! 

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https://youtu.be/hIdjXYVizrA?si=RLaiQvmc7NUWkneM

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https://youtu.be/hIdjXYVizrA?si=RLaiQvmc7NUWkneM

Now, against all odds a loose coalition of resistance fighters and ethnic militias control more than half of their country, are attempting to take more territory, though the regime still holds all largest cities. In the first of a series of special reports we’ll be broadcasting this week about the brutal civil war in Myanmar: Secunder Kermani and filmmaker Katie Arnold have been filming in Karenni State. Inside a resistance stronghold - where rebels have managed to advance

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Now, against all odds a loose coalition of resistance fighters and ethnic militias control more than half of their country, are attempting to take more territory, though the regime still holds all largest cities. In first of a series of special reports we’ll be broadcasting this week about the brutal civil war in Myanmar: Secunder Kermani and filmmaker Katie Arnold have been filming in Karenni State. Inside a resistance stronghold - where rebels have managed to advance

https://youtu.be/wv87VzxGa_A?si=31L1TYVnl5rdy-b_

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Two years since military junta seized power in Myanmar, a fierce guerilla war is intensifying as protesters, who pleaded for a return to democratic rule two years ago, have now picked up weapons to fight for their freedom.

Amid accusations of indiscriminate bombing campaigns, junta regime doesn’t want any outside world to see what they’re doing in Myanmar but Channel 4 News travelled.
secretly into country to speak to the young rebels.

We try contacted Myanmar's military authorities requesting an interview or comment. We have not received a reply.

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Two years since military junta seized power in Myanmar, a fierce guerilla war is intensifying as protesters, who pleaded for a return to democratic rule two years ago, have now picked up weapons to fight for their freedom.

Amid accusations of indiscriminate bombing campaigns, junta regime doesn’t want any outside world to see what they’re doing in Myanmar but Channel 4 News travelled.
secretly into country to speak to the young rebels.

We try contacted Myanmar's military authorities requesting an interview or comment. We have not received a reply.

https://youtu.be/fo8-v8lZ95M?si=7c2bALMGl6QhCKT2

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In the remote rugged hills of Myanmar, one of South East Asia’s least-known countries, a decades-old civil war is raging between the country’s Military regime and a myriad of armed ethnic insurgencies.

In the landlocked state of Karenni, the smallest of Myanmar’s 7 ethnic borderland regions, ordinary civilians are seeking refuge at secret jungle and mountain training camps. Despite not having military backgrounds, young people from all walks of life have decided to flee the
cities and take up arms to train to become insurgent fighters. Leaving their old civilian lives behind and training in various irregular warfare methods, these young men and women apply their skills to ready themselves for frontline action. In an attempt to defeat the Myanmar Military, these newly trained fighters must find innovative ways to take on a much bigger and better-equipped army, which has clung to power for decades through fear and violence in Myanmar’s ethnic regions.

Due to region's remoteness & isolation from years of Military blockades, insurgents of Karenni must utilize area's extensive smuggling networks to keep up their war efforts. Everything from medicines to run their makeshift hospitals to weapons must be taken into their control zones by small nimble groups who must constantly avoid checkpoints & evade capture by traveling off-road.

This new generation of young, tech-savvy fighters is making impressive gains across Myanmar’s Karenni state. Karen Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) one of several armed groups operating in Karenni state has become a beacon of success on & off in 
battlefields leading by eg with its strict organization & determined fighters who fight w/strong ideals for justice & freedom, relying on makeshift weaponry & struggling against tough conditions of forests & mountains, for how long fresh army of Guerillas can survive is in question. This film will take viewers on a journey into Myanmar’insurgent world & show how ancient form of warfare continues to persist in the modern world.

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In the remote rugged hills of Myanmar, one of South East Asia’s least-known countries, a decades-old civil war is raging between the country’s Military regime and a myriad of armed ethnic insurgencies.

In the landlocked state of Karenni, the smallest of Myanmar’s 7 ethnic borderland regions, ordinary civilians are seeking refuge at secret jungle and mountain training camps. Despite not having military backgrounds, young people from all walks of life have decided to flee the
cities and take up arms to train to become insurgent fighters. Leaving their old civilian lives behind and training in various irregular warfare methods, these young men and women apply their skills to ready themselves for frontline action. In an attempt to defeat the Myanmar Military, these newly trained fighters must find innovative ways to take on a much bigger and better-equipped army, which has clung to power for decades through fear and violence in Myanmar’s ethnic regions.

Due to region's remoteness & isolation from years of Military blockades, insurgents of Karenni must utilize area's extensive smuggling networks to keep up their war efforts. Everything from medicines to run their makeshift hospitals to weapons must be taken into their control zones by small nimble groups who must constantly avoid checkpoints & evade capture by traveling off-road.

This new generation of young, tech-savvy fighters is making impressive gains across Myanmar’s Karenni state. Karen Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF) one of several armed groups operating in Karenni state has become a beacon of success on & off in 
battlefields leading by eg with its strict organization & determined fighters who fight w/strong ideals for justice & freedom, relying on makeshift weaponry & struggling against tough conditions of forests & mountains, for how long fresh army of Guerillas can survive is in question. This film will take viewers on a journey into Myanmar’insurgent world & show how ancient form of warfare continues to persist in the modern world.

https://youtu.be/2V93j1rlczg?si=vCglEzyDSuf4SQja

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Myanmar junta intensifies efforts to defend key base on Magway-Rakhine border
The regime has stepped up its defence of the Nat Yay Kan air defence base following the recent capture of a nearby village by resistance forces. 

Myanmar military fighting to retake outposts seized by Kachin forces in BhamoFighters led by the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) have taken over several of the military regime’s security outposts near the Kachin Baptist Convention on Bhamo’s east side.

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Thai PM Anutin Charnvirakul said on Wednesday Myanmar refugees would be able to work legally in 43 provinces across Thailand for next 12 months, starting October 1. New measure is aimed at easing workforce shortages following mass exodus of Cambodian workers in aftermath of late July’s border conflict.

Anutin stressed Myanmar refugee workers would have access to standard welfare provident funds in accordance with Thai labor law. Saw Kaw Htoo told Irrawaddy news, that refugees would have to be prepared before leaving the camps to work. “They will need to understand Thai culture language, labor laws, and compliance procedures before entering the workforce.”

Refugees who have registered their names & skills at camp management offices said they were waiting to hear about next step of the process. “We haven’t heard anything yet, are just waiting for further info from camp management team,” a young resident from Umpiem camp who enlisted for work told The Irrawaddy.

Thai Labour Ministry Inspector General Pichet Thongphan said the first group of unskilled Myanmar refugees would be dispatched across 17 northern provinces, 18 central provinces, including Bangkok, and eight eastern provinces. They will undergo medical check-ups before leaving the camps.

The move would ease the humanitarian burden on aid agencies and Thailand by allowing refugees to support themselves and their families and get access to the Thai healthcare system, said Saw Bwe Say, secretary of the Karen Refugee Committee, which helps manage seven of the camps

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At least 24 killed as paraglider drops bombs at Myanmar Buddhist festival

At least 24 people were killed and 47 others wounded while protesting Myanmar's military govt after a motorised paraglider dropped two bombs on the crowd, a spokesperson for the government-in-exile has told BBC Burmese.  military attacked on Monday evening as around 100 people gathered in Chaung U township in central Myanmar for a national holiday.
Thousands have died and millions have been displaced since 2021, when the army seized power, triggering a civil war with armed resistance groups and ethnic militias.
After losing control of more than half the country, the army is now making significant gains again, through an especially bloody campaign of airstrikes and heavy bombardment

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Malaysia foreign minister heads to Myanmar for talks with junta on election, peace plan...

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Malaysia foreign minister heads to Myanmar for talks with junta on election, peace plan...

KUALA LUMPUR, Oct 9 (Reuters) - Msia's foreign minister will visit Myanmar on Thursday for talks with  junta on its upcoming election to push for progress on a stalled peace process, M'sia's government said. Mohamad Hasan will make a one-day visit to capital Naypyitaw in M'sia's capacity as chair of the Southeast Asian bloc ASEAN, he willl meet junta chief Min Aung Hlaing, PM & the foreign minister, the foreign ministry said in a statement.

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YANGON: Myanmar's junta said on Friday (Oct 10) that Malaysia would send observation teams to its long-delayed election, as it battles multiple rebel forces opposed to the poll.
A civil war has consumed Myanmar since the military snatched power in a 2021 coup, jailing democratic figurehead Aung San Suu Kyi and deposing her civilian government.
https://www.channelnewsasia.com/asia/mya...an-5393671

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Children among civilians killed by junta airstrike in Mongmit, northern Shan State. While there has been no recent fighting in or near the town, the junta has been targeting territories under control of Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which has held Mongmit since last year.
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/two-chil...han-state/

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Children among civilians killed by junta airstrike in Mongmit, northern Shan State. While there has been no recent fighting in or near the town, the junta has been targeting territories under control of Ta’ang National Liberation Army (TNLA), which has held Mongmit since last year.
https://myanmar-now.org/en/news/two-chil...han-state/

KYAUKME, Myanmar (AP) — Ten days after it was recaptured by Myanmar’s military govt,town of Kyaukme stands eerily silent. Schools reopened but town’s once-busy mkt mostly empty. Vendors at some stalls closed them at the sight of visiting journalists, visibly nervous. The once-thriving town in Myanmar’s Shan State is in shambles, an AP  journalist confirmed Friday in a rare visit to war-torn area allowed by military govt. The army allowed an AP photographer to join a trip organized by pro-military Myanmar media, the only representative of foreign media who was permitted to do so. The military doesn’t allow a free press & bars journalists from entering conflict zones independently. Journalists saw charred wreckage of official buildings, such as the courthouse, police station & government housing. Much of area around the town’s hospital was destroyed, with operations temporarily shifted to a nearby Chinese temple. At least one of the town’s fire engines was burnt out. Civilian houses seemed to be mostly unscathed, except those near damaged official buildings, but most of the town’s original population of 46,000 had fled.

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Myanmar’s brutal civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. But why is the world ignoring it? We break down the conflict’s chaos, China’s influence, and uncertain future.
https://youtu.be/sfEjoeCmNPU?si=KHe0RY0-cErfDTYw

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Myanmar’s brutal civil war has killed tens of thousands and displaced millions. But why is the world ignoring it? We break down the conflict’s chaos, China’s influence, and uncertain future.
https://youtu.be/sfEjoeCmNPU?si=KHe0RY0-cErfDTYw

https://youtu.be/sfEjoeCmNPU?si=UZDeVWpPTOzK7EM6

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Myanmar's junta chief acknowledged on Wednesday (Oct 15) that the military-backed administration will be unable to conduct an upcoming general election across the entire country, as a civil war triggered by a 2021 coup rages on. Critics and many Western nations view the election - due to start in late December and the first since the coup - as a sham exercise to legitimise the military's rule via proxy political parties. Dozens of anti-junta parties are either banned or refusing to take part.

The Southeast Asian nation has been in turmoil since the coup, which deposed an elected civilian government and triggered a nationwide armed rebellion that has wrested swathes of territory from the military. The remarks by Min Aung Hlaing were his first public admission that the polls cannot be fully inclusive, days after he met Malaysia's foreign minister ahead of a summit of 10-member Association of Asean. "We can't hold the election everywhere 100 per cent," Min Aung Hlaing said in a speech broadcast on state TV from the capital Naypyitaw, adding that by-elections would follow in some areas after a new government is formed. The junta was able to conduct a full, on-ground census to generate voter lists in only 145 of the country's 330 townships, according to a December census report that put Myanmar's total population at 51.3 million. Current rules require political parties to meet a high threshold of at least 50,000 members and 100 million kyat (US$47,762.33) in funds, leaving only six parties eligible to contest the upcoming polls nationwide.

Related:
Junta has invited ASEAN countries to send observers for the election, due to start on Dec 28 & continue in phases into January. The bloc is expected to discuss request during its summit later this month. Malaysia current chair of ASEAN, & includes Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam.