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Junta leader Senior General Min Aung Hlaing attends a ceremony to commission new aircraft into the Myanmar air force in March.

There is war in our backyard and we have forgotten all about it

As everyone was absorbing the RBA’s decision to raise interest rates on Tuesday evening, one economist received something of a rock-star reception in Sydney.

  • Michael Ruffles

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Voters line up to cast their ballots at a polling station in Naypyitaw, Myanmar.

As some boycott Myanmar’s flawed election, others hope for change

Voting is almost sure to favour the ruling military junta, which is stage-managing the polls but some see them as the most pragmatic way to try to improve conditions.

  • Sui-Lee Wee

Myanmar’s elections will be neither free nor fair. But could they rattle the deadly status quo?

Min Aung Hlaing is desperate for his regime to be seen as legitimate, and he believes elections starting on December 28 are a means to that end.

  • Zach Hope
A soldier from rebel group, the Karen National Liberation Army, recovers from a double amputation in a secret hospital over the border in Thailand.

‘Deluded’ Trump administration deems Myanmar safe, tells citizens to go back home

Human rights groups have condemned the move, accusing the US of aiding and abetting the Myanmar military junta which is “actively seeking to crush its people”.

  • Zach Hope
Weary Dunlop took a stand to save the lives of his sick men.

‘You can shoot me’: How Weary Dunlop stood defiant on the Thai-Burma Railway

Faced with an order that threatened the lives of vulnerable, sick men, their commander called the bluff of his Japanese captors.

  • Peter FitzSimons
Suon Roun’s mother, Em Heap, and brother Suon Eung inside their home at Kampenh village in Cambodia.

How a gunshot at dawn broke a mother’s heart, and left a prime minister fighting for her job

By first light on May 28, the soldiers had already stirred from their remote jungle beds. Some were making coffee. Others were pulling on uniforms. What happened next depends on who you talk to.

  • Zach Hope
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Julie Bishop, a former Australan foreign affairs minister, flew to Russia last week to meet with senior officials of Putin’s regime.

Julie Bishop makes rare diplomatic foray into Russia

The visit of the former foreign minister, who is now the United Nations special envoy for Myanmar, underscores Moscow’s growing influence in the country.

  • Rob Harris
Refugees ride along borderlands

How a river saved a village when war reached its doorstep

The day the fighting neared their village, the residents of Pu Lu Palaw made for the river. Thai soldiers helped them cross. But peace was only fleeting.

  • Kate Geraghty and Zach Hope
Resistance soldiers from Myanmar recover from wounds inflicted whilst fighting against the Myanmar military Junta.

The teenage chef, the rice farmer – and the day that changed their lives forever

Ko Khant and Min Aung once lived in vastly different worlds, hundreds of kilometres apart. Then came February 1, 2021.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty
Myanmar scam compounds

Caught in a $60b scam, these workers tried to flee but the soldiers were waiting

It starts with a fake job ad and a free plane ticket to Bangkok. But when you cross into Myanmar’s lawless borderlands, you realise what you’ve walked into.

  • Zach Hope and Kate Geraghty