In THe NEws

Australian businesses are continuing to operate in Myanmar’s mining sector despite risks they are propping up the country’s brutal military dictatorship, leading to renewed calls on the Albanese government to crack down on the practice.

China and India have found themselves embroiled in a battle for influence in neighboring Myanmar as a guerrilla war rages in the tropical jungles behind their shared borders.

In 2023, HD experienced a dramatic blow to its public image when 661 civil society organizations (CSOs) condemned its actions. In an open letter, these CSOs accused the governments of Finland and Switzerland of lending legitimacy to the Myanmar military regime by inviting it to a clandestine meeting in Helsinki.

An Indian state-owned company has sent Myanmar large amounts of fuel suitable for warships since the military seized power in 2021, but the actual recipient is shrouded in secrecy.

Både det danske selskab MAN og myndighederne stolede blindt på Myanmars flåde og et koreansk skibsværft, da de lovede, at danske motorer ikke skulle installeres i et krigsskib.

Kyaw Min Oo, a US-sanctioned arms broker for the Myanmar military, has been convicted of attempting to leave Singapore with over half a million in unreported Singapore dollars, according to the island state’s police force.

An architect of the relationship between Israel and Myanmar for more than 20 years, Israeli businessman Doron Landau pioneered the establishment of cyber industries in the country.

A junta helicopter went down in Waingmaw township of Myanmar’s northern Kachin State after being fired on by the anti-junta Kachin Independence Army, or KIA, on Wednesday afternoon, according to a KIA spokesperson.

ကချင်ပြည်နယ်၊ ဝိုင်းမော်မြို့နယ် နာဖော့ စစ်ကောင်စီတပ်စခန်းထံ ရိက္ခာလာပို့တဲ့ စစ်ရဟတ်ယာဉ်တစ်စင်းကို ကချင်လွတ်မြောက်ရေးတပ်မတော် (KIA) က ဇန်နဝါရီ ၃ ရက် ဒီနေ့ နေ့လယ်ပိုင်းမှာ ပစ်ချခဲ့ကြောင်း KIO သတင်းနဲ့ ပြန်ကြားရေးတာဝန်ခံ ဗိုလ်မှူးကြီး နော်ဘူ က RFA ကို အတည်ပြုပြောဆိုပါတယ်။

A meeting of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) RTAF leaders, chaired by Myanmar, took place in September last year. The conference in Nay Pyi Taw saw the participation of ACM Alongkorn Wannarot, the RTAF commander, alongside air force leaders from Cambodia, Vietnam, Laos, and Brunei.