Traveller living in Malaysia, enjoys the bazaar with sarcasm and irony. Particular interest in SE Asian politics especially #Myanmar & the #Rohingya in #Rakhine
Malaysia: Let the data speak louder than the racist rumours.
Inspector General of Police Tan Sri Mohd Khalid Ismail confirms the Rohingya community accounts for a mere 0.02% of the country’s overall crime rate, with just 89 individuals involved since 2024. The police chief’s warning is clear: Stop the harmful online speculation. link to report in reply
Your style guide may feel like a technicality. In Myanmar, it is not. Every borrowed word of legitimacy emboldens a brutal military junta. Categorically, Min Aung Hlaing is not a president. He is a war criminal with a stolen title. Call him what he is. https://t.co/gz7IbdqrBu
SHAN News (English Version)
Residents of Mong Yai Township in northern Shan State say (MNDAA) is forcibly recruiting villagers into military service using household registration records collected during previous administrative campaigns.
"It is time for Singapore to uphold its international obligations and take concrete action to block the junta’s access to arms, equipment and aviation fuel."
📷 Read the press release on our website here 📷 https://t.co/sr4gJQtY8D
Myanmar 🇲🇲: images of the massacre in Pakokku are too gruesome to share unfiltered but it is clear dozens have been killed. 49 based on the latest report.
Another brutal crime by the junta.
The resolution adopted by the 113th #ILC explicitly states that all forms of support, assistance, and financial flows to the military authorities—including aviation fuel—that contribute to violence, coercion, intimidation, repression, or the obstruction of the peaceful exercise of fundamental rights by workers and employers should be comprehensively reviewed.
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Death toll from 7.8-magnitude earthquake in the southern Philippines rises to 15.
The quake caused buildings to collapse and sparked tsunami warnings across the region, with the authorities urging people in affected coastal regions to move to higher ground
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More than 20 soldiers including a major were killed in two resistance attacks on June 3 in Bago Region’s Swa Township on regime columns raiding villages there.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
According to local news sources, counterfeit notes worth 1,000 Thai Baht have been found in shops and money transfer businesses in Myawaddy Township, Myawaddy and Shy Kok Kol area on the Thai-Karen border.
As US policy shifts toward realpolitik and strategic interests, the Min Aung Hlaing regime is betting renewed lobbying efforts can help rebuild ties with Washington.
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
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“Modi and Min Aung Hlaing did not address the media after their meeting, unlike most bilateral talks involving visiting heads of state or government in New Delhi.” — AP
Perhaps because mass murder, genocide, anti-Muslim politics & military dictatorship are difficult subjects to talk about in front of the cameras?
The Arakan Army (AA) has seized nearly all outposts guarding the vital Taung Maw Oo naval base in Rakhine State’s Kyaukphyu Township, where the Myanmar military has stationed around 500 troops and is now forced to evacuate its senior officers.
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