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14 December 2023
Mizzima Weekly Magazine Issue 50, Vol. 12, December 14, 2023
Cracking down on the illegal drug trade in the Golden Triangle is a tough call. Alleged American drug trafficker Joseph Manuel Hunter (C) is escorted by Thai commandos as he arrives to board a chartered jet for extradition to the USA at Don Mueang airport in Bangkok, Thailand, September 27, 2013. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
International
20 February 2015
Four-nation taskforce tackles Mekong drug trade
Thailand, Myanmar, China and Laos are working together to tackle the Mekong triangle...
Ma Chaw Chaw (L), 21, a war victim who fled from the conflict zone, gets treatment at a monastery which is being set up as a temporary refugee camp in Lashio, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 19, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Domestic
20 February 2015
Kunlong Township Red Cross rescues 3,000 war...
The Kunlong Township branch of the Myanmar Red Cross Society has helped to rescue 3,163...
Victims of the conflict sit on board a rescue truck as they flee fighting in the Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Domestic
20 February 2015
Aid workers urge ceasefire in Kokang
Aid workers called on February 19 for a ceasefire to allow the evacuation of people...
An elderly woman gives a massage to her daughter, who is a malaria patient at a hospital in the Ke Maunt area in Myanmar, December 20, 2006. Photo: LAW/EPA
Domestic
20 February 2015
Drug-resistant malaria in Myanmar poses global...
Parasites resistant to the frontline malaria drug have spread westward through Southeast...
A Myanmar Border Guard Forces guard near a bunker at the 'Friendship Bridge' Thailand-Myanmar border bridge gate in Myawaddy, Kayin State, Myanmar, October 3, 2014. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Domestic
20 February 2015
NGO reports ongoing militarisation of southeast...
Human rights violations may have dropped over the last three years in Kayin State but...
U Kyaw Min, chairman of the Democracy and Human Rights Party, speaks at a press conference in 2014 in Yangon. Photo: Thein Zaw/Facebook
Domestic
19 February 2015
Democracy and Human Rights Party expels 1,000...
The Democracy and Human Rights Party has expelled more than 1,000 members who are...
Amnesty International has just issued a written statement on human rights concerns in Myanmar to be presented at the 28th session of the UN Human Rights Council to be held from March 2 to 27 in New York. Image: Amnesty International
Domestic
19 February 2015
Amnesty issues stark human rights warning on...
Myanmar’s backsliding on human rights reforms – only a few months before the general...
Thailand's former prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra (C) speaks to members of the media as she arrives to answer questions to the National Legislative Assembly during impeachment proceedings against her at Parliament House in Bangkok, Thailand, January 22, 2015. Photo: Narong Sangnak/EPA
International
19 February 2015
Thai former premier Yingluck to be indicted on...
Former Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra is to be indicted on criminal charges...
Myanmar migrant workers employed on fishing boats unload fish in Phuket, southern Thailand, June 13, 2009. Photo: Barbara Walton/EPA
International
19 February 2015
‘Insufficient action’ by Thailand on slavery may...
In a new briefing, the Environmental Justice Foundation strongly recommends that Thailand...
The Myanmar migrant workers who are accused of the killing of two British tourists, Wai Phyo (L) and Zaw Lin Oo (R), sit behind the bars of a prison vehicle as they arrive for trial at court on Samui island, Surat Thani province, Thailand, December 8, 2014.  Photo: Sitthipong Charoenjai/EPA
International
19 February 2015
Crowdfund for Koh Tao murder suspects ‘blocked by...
The crowdfunding effort for the Koh Tao Myanmar murder suspects has fallen foul of a “...
Volunteers of Myanmar Red Cross organisation carry wounded volunteer U Moe Kyaw, 45, as the war vrefugees fleeing from Laukkai sit on the truck after vehicles of a rescue convoy were attacked by Kokang rebels near Kokang capital Laukkai, northern Shan State, Myanmar, February 17, 2015. Two volunteers from Myanmar Red Cross Society injured in rescue convoy attack. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Domestic
19 February 2015
Media group calls on army to protect journalists...
The Myanmar Journalist Network on February 18 issued a statement urging government troops...
A street vendor reads a new private daily newspaper while selling newspapers and weekly journals at a roadside stall in Yangon, Myanmar, April 1, 2013. Photo: Lynn Bo Bo/EPA
Opinion
19 February 2015
The government should support private media
For more than forty years state media dominated Myanmar’s media landscape. State...

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