Rohingya refugees living in squalid camps in Bangladesh have elected a leadership council, hoping it can improve conditions and revive efforts to secure their return home to Myanmar. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/29/asia-pacific/rohingya-refugees-new-leaders/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #rohingya #myanmar #bangladesh #refugees #islam
While Myanmar's military flaunts the trappings of elections — party billboards, voting machines, observers from countries like China and Belarus — its professed path to "disciplined democracy” is neither free nor fair. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-people-suffering/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #aungsansuukyi
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. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/28/asia-pacific/myanmar-election-polls-open/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #aungsansuukyi
Myanmar's junta attempts to cement its control over the country and gain legitimacy through elections following fierce armed resistance that has emerged since the military coup. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/25/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-election-long-odds/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #myanmar #democracy #aungsansuukyi #thailand
Myanmar’s ruling military junta hopes a coming election will give it a veneer of legitimacy and help it return to the global stage, even as most observers cast the polls as a sham. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/23/asia-pacific/politics/myanmar-election-junta/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #myanmar
Ross 🏳️🌈🏴
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this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.
if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.
#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione
Myanmar's junta has reshaped its tactics by introducing conscription and expanding its drone fleet, enabling it to reclaim some territory after defeats or stalemates on the battlefield. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/17/asia-pacific/myanmar-junta-rebels-fighting-tactics/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #southeastasia #drones
In 2025, Trump’s second-term policies, including aggressive U.S. tariffs, a trade war with China and inconsistent commitments to allies, disrupted economic and security trends that are expected to continue in 2026. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/commentary/2025/12/16/world/washington-transform-asia-in-2025-2026/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #commentary #worldnews #donaldtrump #us #china #asia #shinzoabe #vietnam #japan #australia #europe #thailand #xijinping #sanaetakaichi #taiwan #myanmar #cambodia
this story about Benjamin Mauerberger, a south african #crypto bro and card carrying member of the chinese #mafia who made so much money via #pigbutchering and other crypto scams that he managed to co-opt a large part of #Thailand's government (to say nothing of #Cambodia and #Myanmar) is nuts.
if you’re wondering about the dark forces driving the current war between thailand and cambodia, this is one of those forces.
#sapol #southafrica #whaleHunting #triads #organizedcrime #ChineseMafia #pigbutchering #ASEAN #scams #cryptocurrency #bitcoin #princeGroup #huione
A Myanmar military air strike has killed more than 30 people at a hospital ahead of elections scheduled for the end of December. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/11/asia-pacific/myanmar-hospital-deadly-stirke/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #junta
Thailand seized assets worth more than $300 million, including shares in a major regional energy company, and issued arrest warrants for 42 people in a high-profile push against regional scam networks. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/04/asia-pacific/crime-legal/thailand-assets-arrest-scams/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #thailand #fraud #cambodia #myanmar #southeastasia
Myanmar’s opium poppy cultivation has hit a decade-record level, the U.N. warned Wednesday, with early indications its heroin output is now being trafficked to Western markets. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/12/03/asia-pacific/opium-poppy-farming-war-myanmar/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #myanmar #opium #drugs
The U.S. is ending temporary legal status for citizens of Myanmar in the United States, arguing they can safely return to the war-torn country and citing the military junta’s planned elections as evidence of “progress.” https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/25/asia-pacific/politics/us-status-myanmar-nationals-elections/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #politics #us #immigration #refugees #myanmar
Across mainland Southeast Asia, more than 2,400 mines — many of them illegal and unregulated — could be releasing deadly chemicals such as cyanide and mercury into river water, according to new research. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/24/asia-pacific/toxic-mines-southeast-asia/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #southeastasia #mining #pollution #rareearths #thailand #myanmar #china
Will Tuladhar-Douglas
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To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos & #Myanmar (including de-facto support for the ruthless #junta), the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining and critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition Work Program is no surprise.
In the latest issue of @codastory newsletter, I explore this, and more.
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/chinas-green-energy-miracle-and-a-conspiracy-of-silence/
To anyone who's been following human rights issues in #Tibet or the #Uyghur regions, or Chinese links to illegal #rareearth mining in #Laos & #Myanmar (including de-facto support for the ruthless #junta), the fact that #China derailed the inclusion of mining and critical minerals in the #COP30 #JustTransition Work Program is no surprise.
In the latest issue of @codastory newsletter, I explore this, and more.
https://www.codastory.com/climate-crisis/chinas-green-energy-miracle-and-a-conspiracy-of-silence/
After living in Thailand for nearly two decades, one Myanmar refugee feels like he can "see a future" following the government in Bangkok announcing such refugees would be given employment rights for the first time. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/19/asia-pacific/society/myanmar-refugees-thai-workforce/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #myanmar #refugees #thailand #southeastasia
In war-torn Myanmar, necessity — rather than climate goals — is driving a rapid adoption of solar power. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/14/asia-pacific/society/myanmar-solar-power-energy-crisis/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #society #myanmar #thailand #china #energy #solar
An Chinese alleged racketeer linked to a hugely lucrative scam hub in Myanmar, who spent over a decade on the run from Chinese authorities, has been extradited from Thailand to China, according to Thai police. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/13/asia-pacific/crime-legal/chinese-scam-kingpin-thailand/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #crimelegal #myanmar #cambodia #thailand #southeastasia #fraud
One survivor recounted a harrowing journey that left him floating for days in the Andaman Sea after the sinking of a boat carrying members of Myanmar's persecuted Rohingya Muslim minority that left 27 dead. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/11/12/asia-pacific/rohingya-survivor-boat-sinking/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #asiapacific #rohingya #malaysia #thailand #southeastasia #myanmar #refugees