Junta Watch: Dictator Borrows Time in Library; Launches Military Training for Conscripts
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Business appears to be going on as usual in Karen State’s recently freed town of Myawaddy, but residents said on Friday they remain fearful junta jets may pound them with bombs.  (Photo: Brian Wei / The Irrawaddy)
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Thailand's Foreign Minister Parnpree Bahiddha-Nukara visits the Myanmar border on April 12, 2024, following days of clashes that have dislodged Myanmar junta troops from their positions in a trade hub Myawaddy on Myanmar’s side. (Photo : AFP)

Magic and bulldozers bedevil Myanmar junta’s new restoration work in Bagan
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Rocky Start for New Bloc of Myanmar EAOs Formed to Join Junta Peace Talks
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Where Is Myanmar Regime No. 2 Soe Win?
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AA Chief: Neighbors Propping Up Myanmar Junta
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Myanmar’s mothers describe agony as embattled junta snatches sons for military service
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Spotlight on Thailand as cornered Myanmar junta threatens disaster on border
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Thai authorities temporarily shut down the second Thai-Myanmar Friendship Bridge linking Myawaddy on the Myanmar side with Mae Sot in Thailand on Thursday after fleeing junta troops took shelter at the bridge to reportedly seek safety in Thailand.
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Junta officials, local executives and counterparts from Eurasian economic union discuss business opportunities in Naypyitaw as war rages around them.
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KIA Seizes Myanmar Junta Base Controlling Access to Jade Hub Hpakant
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Amid clashes between the junta and the Kachin Independence Army near the Chinese border in northern Myanmar, Chinese Ambassador to Myanmar Chen Hai met junta Border Affairs Minister Lt-Gen Tun Tun Naung in Naypyitaw Wednesday to discuss border stability.
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IN PICTURES: Following the fall of Myawaddy to Karen and resistance groups Wednesday night, residents of the town tried to flee to Mae Sot, Thailand by crossing the Thai-Myanmar No. 1 Friendship Bridge on Thursday morning. (Photo: The Irrawaddy)
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Myanmar Junta Troops Withdraw From Myawaddy Following Clashes
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Brave Warriors for Myanmar said it and another resistance group dropped seven 107-mm rocket bombs on the Aye Lar military airbase in Naypyitaw on Thursday, killing and injuring military personnel. It was the fourth resistance attack on the airbase so far. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

Members of Karen and resistance armed groups are seen in Myawaddy on Thursday, after the town on the Thai border was seized by a coalition of the groups and their resistance allies Wednesday night, as viewed from Thailand's Mae Sot district. (Photo: AFP) #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar

The 83-year-old patron of the National League for Democracy, U Win Htein, who was held in Mandalay’s Obo Prison, was taken to Mandalay General Hospital on Wednesday with heat exhaustion.
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Ethnic Karen armed groups and allied forces took full control of the trade hub of Myawaddy on the Thai border at around 1 a.m. Thursday, according to the Karen National Union, whose troops are involved in the fighting. Stay tuned for full story.
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