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Rare Earth Mining, Toxic Rivers Expose Gaps in Bangkok’s Cross-Border Pollution Pact

Inside Bangkok’s opulent Queen Sirikit National Convention Center, Myanmar’s military junta leader and Thai government officials smiled as they signed a series of bilateral...

Northern Shan Trade Disrupted by Rising Checkpoint Fees and Road Restrictions

Merchants and drivers report that checkpoint fees and road-clearance bribes extorted at military regime checkpoints along the route from Nawnghkio in northern Shan State...

Billions for the Dam, Nothing for the Displaced: Junta Revives Upper Yeywa Project

Amid ongoing conflict and political instability in northern Shan State, Myanmar's military junta has announced plans to use Union funds to repair and resume...

Drug Overdoses Rise in Muse KTVs While China Denies Entry to Critical Patients

A growing wave of drug overdoses inside karaoke (KTV) lounges is claiming the lives of young people in Muse, a key Myanmar-China border town,...

Rising Egg Prices Deepen Cost-of-Living Crisis in Southern Shan

The price of eggs has surged to as high as 800 Kyats each in southern Shan State, pushing many households deeper into hardship as...

Mining Boom and Gambling Debt Fuel Land Crisis in Kalaw Township

Land prices in Baw Hseng Village, Kalaw Township, have nearly doubled as expanding mining operations and mounting gambling-related debt drive the rapid sale of...

Fear of Crime Grows in Kengtung as Gun Permits Come with Militia Requirement

Residents in Kengtung say local authorities are requiring business owners to join junta-backed militias before they can obtain firearm permits, leaving them caught between...

Rice Price Collapse Pushes Pong Inn Farmers Deeper into Debt

Farmers in the Pong Inn area of southern Shan State are facing a deepening financial crisis as falling rice prices leave many unable to...

Shan Farmers Crushed by Debt as Crop Prices Collapse and Military Levies Rise

"The market has completely collapsed. We have nothing left to eat, and after borrowing year after year just to survive, I'm drowning in debt,"...

Trafficking of Myanmar Women Spreads Beyond Border Regions

The Kachin Women's Association Thailand (KWAT) has warned of a sharp rise in the trafficking of Myanmar women to China, where many are sold...

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