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A crowd greets a bus carrying prisoners released from Insein Prison in Yangon, Myanmar, Nov. 17, 2022.

Myanmar junta looks to placate ASEAN with prisoner releases

The military’s amnesty is a calculated move to win bloc’s backing for elections next year.

Construction workers labor at a site in Shanghai, China, Oct. 14, 2022.

Southeast Asia will feel economic, political fallout from more powerful Xi Jinping

A Thai officer stands beside a burnt down oil tanker at a gas station in Pattani province after an overnight wave of arson and bomb attacks in Thailand’s southernmost provinces that authorities have blamed on Muslim separatist rebels, Aug. 17, 2022.

BRN rebels deal blow to Thai hopes for Buddhist Lent ceasefire

Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-o-cha (right) greets Malaysian Prime Minister Ismail Sabri Yaakob upon his arrival for a welcoming ceremony at the Government House in Bangkok, Feb. 25, 2022.

Revenge of the old guards

2022-07-28

The National Unity Government and affiliated ethnic resistance organizations claim to control roughly 50 percent of Myanmar. Here, members of the Karenni Nationalities Defense Force and Karenni Army man at a checkpoint near Demoso, in Myanmar’s eastern Kayah state, Oct. 19, 2021.

Execution of democracy icons shows Myanmar junta is desperate to exert control

2022-07-25

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