Photo>Frontier MYANMAR Education vs. revolution: school reopenings bring hard choices When the Myanmar military reopened the nation’s schools in November, millions of students found themselves forced to choose between maintaining the boycott of state services and losing even more of…
Photo>TheIrrawaddy Myanmar Students Union Fears for Tortured Prisoners The Irrawaddy | 15 Dec 2021 The All Burma Federation of Student Unions (ABFSU) has expressed concern for prisoners who were brutally beaten and held in solitary confinement in Yangon’s Insein Prison…
Photo>TheIrrawaddy Thailand Needs Healthy Myanmar Migrants to Boost Economy The Irrawaddy | 17 Nov 2021 | by KAVI CHONGKITTAVORN Ten months into the crisis in Myanmar, Thailand is still scrambling for a well-balanced policy to lessen the anxiety of Myanmar’s…
PHOTO>BANGKOK POST Govt offers Covid-19 vaccines to migrant workers Bangkok Post | 10 Nov, 2021 Authorities will set aside up to 500,000 doses of Covid-19 vaccines for foreign workers as it prepares to welcome them back to the country to…
PHOTO>BDNEWS24 The young generation risking all to topple the Myanmar junta Poppy McPherson and Shoon Naing, Reuters | 10 Nov, 2021 The knife that carved through Gue Gue’s abdomen wasn’t exactly meant for pulling out her inflamed appendix. But it…
PHOTO>THE IRRAWADDY Thailand Cracks Down on Trafficking of Myanmar, Other Workers By THE BANGKOK POST | 10 Nov 2021 Warrants are being sought to arrest smugglers of illegal Myanmar migrant workers and seize their assets as Thai authorities continue their crackdown…
PHOTO>YAHOO!NEWS Thailand plans to reopen borders to foreign workers amid shortage Panarat Thepgumpanat and Chayut Setboonsarng | Yahoo!News | 9 Nov, 2021 BANGKOK (Reuters) – Thailand plans to reopen its borders to workers from neighbouring Myanmar, Cambodia and Laos, a…
PHOTO>BUSINESS INSIDER INDIA Worker shortages across Vietnam, Malaysia, and Thailand may lead to big delays in holiday shipping this year BUSINESS INSIDER INDIA | 15 Oct 2021 A shortage of workers in several Southeast Asian manufacturing hubs is adding to…
Photo>Frontier MYANMAR Amid education boycotts, ethnic schools help to fill the gap A boycott of state schools under military rule has caused a spike in enrollments at ethnic community schools and created opportunities for ethnic armed organizations to broaden and…
PHOTO>FRONTIER The overwhelming rejection of state education since the coup has spawned the emergence of learning alternatives, including plans for both physical and virtual universities. By ROSALIE METRO | FRONTIER | 24 Jun, 2021 In keeping with the motto embraced…