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Suon Roun’s mother, Em Heap, and brother Suon Eung inside their home at Kampenh village in Cambodia.

How a gunshot at dawn broke a mother’s heart, and left a prime minister fighting for her job

By first light on May 28, the soldiers had already stirred from their remote jungle beds. Some were making coffee. Others were pulling on uniforms. What happened next depends on who you talk to.

  • Zach Hope

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Julie Bishop, a former Australan foreign affairs minister, flew to Russia last week to meet with senior officials of Putin’s regime.

Julie Bishop makes rare diplomatic foray into Russia

The visit of the former foreign minister, who is now the United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, underscores Moscow’s growing influence in the country.

  • Rob Harris
Refugees ride along borderlands

How a river saved a village when war reached its doorstep

The day the fighting neared their village, the residents of Pu Lu Palaw made for the river. Thai soldiers helped them cross. But peace was only fleeting.

  • Kate Geraghty and Zach Hope
Resistance soldiers from Myanmar recover from wounds inflicted whilst fighting against the Myanmar military Junta.

The teenage chef, the rice farmer – and the day that changed their lives forever

Ko Khant and Min Aung once lived in vastly different worlds, hundreds of kilometres apart. Then came February 1, 2021.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
Myanmar scam compounds

Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers were waiting

It starts with a fake job ad and a free plane ticket to Bangkok. But when you cross into Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, you realise what you’ve walked into.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
A man tends his market stall on a sandbar in the middle of the Moei River on the Thai- Myanmar border between Mae Sot and Myawaddy, Myanmar.

Sex drops and whiskey packets: The bizarre market built around a barbed wire fence

An international border separates the vendors from customers, while behind it people live in the middle of a river, knowing their houses will soon be washed away.

  • Zach Hope
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No Man's Land is an ungoverned strip of riverbank between Thailand and Myanmar, where a unique market thrives, selling everything from vapes to bootleg alcohol.
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No Man's Land: An ungoverned border market

No Man's Land is an ungoverned strip of riverbank between Thailand and Myanmar, where a unique market thrives, selling everything from vapes to bootleg alcohol.

US President Donald Trump at a Summer soiree on the South Lawn of the White House on Wednesday.

‘We don’t want them’: Trump imposes travel bans on citizens from 12 countries

The US president has announced a total ban on citizens from a dozen countries entering the US and a partial ban on several more nations, a move that partly revives controversial travel restrictions from his first term.

  • Michael Koziol
Indonesian trafficking victims wait to be processed at the Thai border after being released.

From the Thai borderlands, I saw the workers coming for their freedom

The nondescript town of Mae Sot on the Myanmar-Thai border has long been a hub of dubious trade. But now something remarkable is happening.

  • Zach Hope
KK Park in Myanmar, known for its scam compounds, is seen across the Moei River on the Myanmar–Thailand border.

Borderlands: On the edge of humanity

Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty travel to the borderlands near Myanmar, where efforts are under way to rescue thousands of trafficking victims from scam factories.

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