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Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing has vowed to “annihilate” the military’s opponents in Myanmar.

Losing ground to rebels, Myanmar junta tries an olive branch

Just as resistance forces appear close to capturing the country’s second-biggest city, Mandalay, military rulers put up a new proposal.

  • Sui-Lee Wee

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Myanmar floods.

After Vietnam, Typhoon Yagi came for war-ravaged Myanmar

Even before the typhoon, the UN estimated 18.6 million people out of a total population of 55 million needed humanitarian assistance.

  • Zach Hope
Bibi Rahimi, from Afghanistan, one of several thousand refugees stranded in Indonesia who will lose their UNHCR funding.

Bibi was given $4 a day to survive. Now that allowance has been cut to zero

As humanitarian crises unfold around the globe, the United Nations is looking at its books.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies
Economics professor Sean Turnell at his Sydney home.

Australia’s least likely spy on tipping the balance in a brutal civil war

Sean Turnell was Aung San Suu Kyi’s financial Mr Fix-it and says everything is pointing to the defeat of Myanmar’s junta.

  • Michael Ruffles
Groups of Rohingya Muslims cross the Naf River at the border between Myanmar and Bangladesh, near Palong Khali, Bangladesh in 2017.

‘Hundreds’ including women and children killed in drone attacks crossing river to flee war

Horrific stories are emerging of an atrocity in war-ravaged Myanmar, allegedly at the hands of a rebel army, which has denied responsibility.

  • Zach Hope and Saiful Arakani
Maya Hajizadeh (right) and fellow L2R dancers.

How Maya – who was banned from dancing – found her groove

As a girl in Iran, she watched music videos in her room but being a professional dancer was not feasible. That changed when she came to Melbourne and joined hip-hop crew L2R.

  • Carolyn Webb
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Karen forces and allied groups took the town of Myawaddy from Myanmar’s military junta last week.

Rebels celebrate taking key border town, Thailand left scrambling

Concerns of a Myanmar military counter-offensive at the border has drawn neighbouring Thailand closer to the conflict.

  • Zach Hope
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop last year.

Julie Bishop named United Nations special envoy for Myanmar

Myanmar has been locked in civil war since the army took power from Aung Suu Kyi’s elected government in 2021.

  • Michael Mehr and John Kidman
The Jakarta-Bandung High Speed Rail project in Indonesia was successfully finished four years behind schedule and US$1.2 billion over budget.

China’s cash promises in South-East Asia are coming up short, report says

President Xi Jinping launched the Belt and Road Initiative in 2013, immediately winning over many foreign governments with promises of unprecedented investment.

  • Zach Hope
Rohingya refugees on a capsized boat before being rescued in the waters off West Aceh, Indonesia.

Dozens of Rohingya refugees feared dead in boat tragedy off Indonesia

Asian news agencies, one citing an Indonesian official, reported the boat was headed to Australia. Border Force said this was not true.

  • Zach Hope and Karuni Rompies

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