YANGON: Myanmar’s junta chief arrived in Vladivostok on Monday to attend the Eastern Economic Forum, his second trip to Russia in less than two months, in what former officials said is part of the ruling military’s attempt to establish “special relations” with Moscow. The southeast Asian country has maintained friendly ties with Russia since the junta seized power from the
Lying at the nexus of South Asia, Southeast Asia and China, Myanmar hosts an extraordinary mix of ecosystems that represent some of the last refuges of an ever-lengthening list of imperiled species: tigers, leopards and pangolins to name a few. But the combination of teeming biodiversity and notoriously lax law enforcement also makes the country […]
This briefing gives an overview of the limitations of Myanmar’s policies to address Covid-19, particularly the ways they impacted Burmese migrant workers and survivors of human trafficking.