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Myanmar votes amid civil war, junta chief down plays presidential role
Published on 28/12/2025
» Overshadowed by civil war and doubts about the credibility of the polls, voters in Myanmar were casting their ballots in a general election starting on Sunday, the first since a military coup toppled the last civilian government in 2021.
Myanmar junta stages election after five years of civil war
AFP, Published on 28/12/2025
» YANGON (MYANMAR) - A trickle of voters made their way to Myanmar's heavily restricted polls on Sunday, with the ruling junta touting the exercise as a return to democracy five years after it ousted the last elected government, triggering civil war.
Myanmar goes to the polls amid civil war and humanitarian crisis
Reuters, Published on 27/12/2025
» NAY PYI TAW - Myanmar heads to the polls on Sunday as it battles a civil war that has ravaged parts of the country as well as one of Asia's worst humanitarian crises.
Thai year of environmental upheaval
News, Apinya Wipatayotin, Published on 27/12/2025
» In 2025, Thailand faced a convergence of challenges that had laid bare its vulnerability to environmental degradation, natural disasters, and complex regional dynamics.
Twin disasters mark year
News, Vanniya Sriangura, Published on 25/12/2025
» Twin disasters mark year
Myanmar junta seeks election legitimacy
Published on 23/12/2025
» In August 2024, Myanmar’s ruling military junta was losing ground fast.
Artists resist repression in Thailand, US
Oped, Published on 08/12/2025
» In late August, two seemingly unrelated events occurred in Thailand and the US. The Bangkok Art and Culture Centre (BACC) altered a major exhibit it had recently opened and, a few weeks later, the comedian Jimmy Kimmel was temporarily taken off the air by the ABC television network. These events are linked as forms of artistic repression and perhaps more concerning, as examples of the growing use of intermediary censorship by authoritarian regimes.
Crackdown theatre masks border graft
News, Paskorn Jumlongrach, Published on 06/12/2025
» The thunderous explosion that sent a 12-storey building crashing to the ground in the border backwater of Shwe Kokko at midday on Wednesday sounded like a major accident, if not an earthquake.
Impact from KK Park crackdown limited
Published on 06/11/2025
» Chinese scam syndicates have managed to avoid the fallout from a high-profile crackdown on the KK Park complex in Myawaddy by simply moving to other nearby locations in Myanmar, according to local reports.
Myanmar junta readies for sham poll
News, Published on 11/10/2025
» Myanmar's military leader, Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, who currently serves as both the army's commander in chief and the country's head of state, has reshuffled the government's administrative structure in preparation for planned elections later this year.