1, 2021, the revolution that began with peaceful demonstrations has escalated into a full-blown armed struggle, now about to end its fourth year. The landscape of Myanmar’s conflict has dramatically ...
The armed wing of the long-established, powerful ethnic national organisation Karen National Union (KNU) has been battling a breakaway group near the city of Dawei in Myanmar’s southernmost region ...
15 Jan - Chinese model Yang Zeqi has been located in Myanmar's Myawaddy township after going missing in Thailand last December, according to anti-fraud advocate Ha Zhendong. This development comes ...
Landslides in the jade mining area of Hpakant in Myanmar have been a regular theme of this blog over the years. This is a mining area on an epic scale, but it is also a true wild west, with poor ...
Scam factories threaded along the Myanmar border with Thailand have been thrust back under the spotlight after the rescue of a Chinese actor who says he was duped by a fake casting call into ...
Collin J. Meisel receives funding from the U.S. government, but the results and views expressed here are his own and do not represent the views of the USG. With major conflicts in Africa, the ...
13 Jan - Chinese actor Wang Xing has safely returned to China following his harrowing ordeal at the Thai-Myanmar border, where he was held in a scammer training compound. The actor, now visibly bald ...