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Farmer Hla Han, 52, who lost his leg after stepping on a mine, peels garlic outside his house in Demoso township, eastern Kayah state, Myanmar.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Nov 20, 2024
Myanmar led world in landmine victims in 2023, monitor says
Decades of sporadic conflict between the military and ethnic rebel groups have left Myanmar littered with deadly landmines and munitions.
Workers unload a large marble Buddha statue from a truck in Mandalay, Myanmar.
ASIA PACIFIC
Nov 6, 2024
The marble 'living Buddhas' trapped by Myanmar's civil war
Buddhist-majority Myanmar has been mired in bloody conflict since the military toppled the government of Aung San Suu Kyi in 2021.
A recovering drug addict from Myanmar gets a therapeutic massage during a rehabilitation program run by the nongovernmental organization Drug and Alcohol Recovery and Education Network at an undisclosed location in Mae Sot along the Thai-Myanmar border.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 31, 2024
As Myanmar conflict rages on, drug escape leads thousands to addiction
The civil war in Myanmar since 2021 has killed thousands, displaced nearly 3 million people and triggered a boom in drug production.
New recruits of the Bamar People's Liberation Army (BPLA) march during a training session at a camp in territory belonging to the Karen National Liberation Army, in Myanmar's Karen state, in March.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 26, 2024
How an anxious China is backing Myanmar's faltering junta in civil war
Beijing is increasingly alarmed at the rapid degeneration of the military, which it still sees as a guarantor of stability in its neighbor.
Soldiers sit next to an armored vehicle outside a hotel during the Association of Southeast Asian Nations Summit in Vientiane on Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 9, 2024
Southeast Asian summit to seek progress on Myanmar civil war
Rising tensions in the disputed South China Sea will also be on the agenda at the gathering of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Laos.
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra speaks during a news conference in Bangkok on Sept. 7.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 8, 2024
ASEAN must play key role in resolving Myanmar crisis, Thai prime minister says
Thailand's Prime Minister Paetongtarn Shinawatra said on Monday the regional bloc ASEAN must play a key role in ending the protracted civil war in Myanmar, ahead of a summit of the leaders of the 10-member group in Laos this week.
A police officer from the Narcotics Control Board stands guard in front of boxes of confiscated drugs during the 50th Destruction of Confiscated Narcotics ceremony in Ayutthaya province, Thailand, on June 26, 2020.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 2, 2024
Myanmar's civil war is driving the drug trade, Thailand official says
The political unrest in Myanmar has led to an expansion of synthetic drugs production and trafficking.
Justice Minister Ryuji Koizumi speaks to reporters in Tokyo on Friday. Koizumi stressed that the granting of the special residency permits to children subjected to deportation orders was a one-time measure.
JAPAN / Politics
Sep 27, 2024
Japan fine-tunes issuance of humanitarian visas
The move comes amid a near-tripling of technical intern trainees from Myanmar going missing from their programs in 2023.
Myanmar's then-state counselor, Aung San Suu Kyi, meets with Fumio Kishida, Japan's then-foreign minister, for talks in Tokyo in November 2016.
COMMENTARY / Japan
Sep 27, 2024
Kishida’s failure to support democracy in Myanmar
Kishida's lack of engagement with Myanmar's pro-democracy movement shows he prioritized economic relations over democratic values.
Out of a total of 509,373 foreign technical trainees, 1.9% went missing in 2023, according to Immigration Services Agency data.
JAPAN / Society
Sep 27, 2024
Record number of technical trainees go missing in Japan in 2023
Of the total, 1,765 were Myanmar nationals who had fled conflict in their home country.
An Indian national flag flies next to an immigration check post on the India-Myanmar border in Zokhawthar village in the Champhai district of India's northeastern state of Mizoram, in 2021.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 24, 2024
India extends unprecedented invite to Myanmar's anti-junta forces, sources say
The civil war in Myanmar risks destabilizing India's border with the nation, and some of its key infrastructure projects there.
Flood-affected residents at the Yado displacement camp in Than Dung Gyi, eastern Karen state, Myanmar, on Saturday
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 16, 2024
Volunteers rush to help as Myanmar flood toll surges
Floods and landslides have killed more than 400 people in Myanmar, Vietnam, Laos and Thailand in the wake of Typhoon Yagi.
Myanmar Prime Minister and State Administrative Council Chairman Min Aung Hlaing said the census data collected from Oct. 1 to 15 will be used to hold a general election next year.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 2, 2024
Myanmar junta announces census for promised 2025 election
Opponents say the census in the first half of October is a ploy by the junta to collect information from the people that they will use to terrorize them.
Rohingya refugees gather to mark the seventh anniversary of their fleeing from neighboring Myanmar to escape a military crackdown in 2017, during heavy monsoon rains in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 26, 2024
Rohingya demand end to violence on seventh anniversary of flight from Myanmar
More than a million Rohingya live in squalid camps in southern Bangladesh with little prospect of returning home.
New recruits of the Bamar People's Liberation Army during a training session at a camp in Myanmar's Karen state in March.
ASIA PACIFIC
Aug 24, 2024
In Myanmar's jungles, young volunteers train hard to fight junta
Discipline is enforced with harsh blows for any mistake and exhaustion is no excuse for rest as a "soldier's duty transcends fatigue."
A Palestinian man rides a bicycle past a damaged vehicle in which employees from the World Central Kitchen were killed in an Israeli airstrike in Deir Al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, on April 2. The Israeli military said it is conducting a thorough review to understand the circumstances of the "tragic" incident, amid the ongoing conflict between Israel and Hamas.
WORLD / Politics
Aug 20, 2024
U.N. warns of 'unacceptable' level of violence against aid workers
The world body warns that the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip is potentially fueling even higher numbers of such deaths this year.
Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus salutes to the attendees before taking an oath to head of the interim Bangladesh government, in Dhaka on Aug. 8.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Aug 19, 2024
Bangladesh's Yunus reassures on Rohingya refugees and garment exports
Muhammad Yunus again committed to hold free and fair elections "as soon as we can complete our mandate to carry out vital reforms" in the nation.
Bangladesh's instability adds to the existing regional tensions in South Asia, which is already grappling with violence in Myanmar, terrorism in the Pakistan-Afghanistan area and political turmoil in the Maldives and Nepal.
COMMENTARY / World
Aug 14, 2024
South Asia’s deepening political turmoil
The ouster of Bangladeshi's government is the latest example of political volatility in South Asia — a region struggling to achieve stability, let alone democratization.
The city of Yangon in July
JAPAN
Aug 13, 2024
Japan supermarket director detained in Myanmar released: junta
Hiroshi Kasamatsu, 53, director of Aeon Orange, which runs several supermarkets in Myanmar, was detained following an investigation into rice mills and supermarkets.
Aeon has said that it will do its best to achieve the early release of a Japanese employee in Myanmar who was just given a one-year prison term.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Aug 12, 2024
Japanese employee of Aeon given one-year prison term in Myanmar
Hiroshi Kasamatsu had been charged with violating a law on daily necessities and services by selling rice at prices higher than levels set by the military regime.
Two of America’s biggest debt holders are dumping Treasurys
The U.S. Treasury building in Washington. Investors in Japan and China sold a pile of U.S. debt in the last quarter, just before the U.S. presidential election.
Ishiba aggravates his own political failures with diplomatic faux pas
Prime Minster Shigeru Ishiba is greeted at the APEC summit in Lima by Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on Friday. The Japanese leader was criticized for remaining seated while meeting several world leaders at the event.
Japan's 3.31 million visitors in October set monthly record
Kiyomizu Temple in Kyoto in December 2023. Famous autumn leaf colors contributed to increased tourism demand last month from many markets across Asia, Europe and North America, the Japan National Tourism Organization has said.
Japan ranks last in romance satisfaction for second straight year
In a survey of 31 countries, Japan ranked last in terms of those who felt loved, with just 51% of respondents saying so.
Ruling coalition and DPP strike last-minute deal over economic policy
DPP policy chief Makoto Mahaguchi speaks at the party's policy gathering in Tokyo on Wednesday.
Japan, U.K. and Italy discuss inviting more countries to joint fighter project
A new concept model of a next-generation fighter jet to be jointly developed by Japan, Britain and Italy is on display in Farnborough, Hampshire, in July.
Haruki Murakami's 'The City and Its Uncertain Walls' gives deep deja vu
For “The City and Its Uncertain Walls,” translated into English by Philip Gabriel, Haruki Murakami confronts the ghosts who won't leave him alone.
Japanese expats in Asia find community through rugby
The Taiwan Fivewoods celebrate their victory at the 2023 Asian Japanese Rugby Cup in December of last year.
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For Dr. Nakamats, aging is just experience in action
Though he didn't win the recent gubernatorial election in Tokyo, the 96-year-old Dr. Nakamats' run was seen as inspirational in Japan's aging society.

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