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With Zarni, Senior Producer of Doh Athan, and Joe Freeman, Myanmar Researcher at Amnesty International.
This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the ICC applies for an arrest warrant for Senior General Min Aung Hlaing, traumatized Rohingya arrive in Bangladesh, and we get a behind-the-scenes peek at Doh Athan, the sister podcast in the Frontier Myanmar family.
Email the show at [email protected]
Timecodes:
1m04s :: Weekly news digest
4m42s :: Arrest warrant requested for Min Aung Hlaing
18m06s :: Behind the scenes at Doh Athan
32m10s :: IDPs suffering malnutrition as aid declines
44m20s :: Close
Our guests—
Joe Freeman, Myanmar researcher at Amnesty International:
Amnesty International Myanmar: New attacks against Rohingya a disturbing echo of 2017 mass violence
A Future Myanmar Must Include the Rohingya
Zarni, Senior Producer at Doh Athan:
Doh Athan on YouTube
Doh Athan on Soundcloud
And on Facebook, the best way to contact the show
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With Ko Maung, labor rights activist, and Matthew Brunwasser, independent journalist. This week in What's Happening in Myanmar we discuss the ongoing Charis strike in Hlaingtharya and Myanmar army attacks on Bangladesh fisherman on the Naf river.
Timecodes:
1m07s :: Weekly news digest
2m10s :: Charis strikes and post-coup industrial relations
22m03s :: Life and Death on the Bangladesh Border
34m20s :: Close
Our guests—
Matthew Brunwasser, independent journalist:
Matthew Brunwasser’s website and articles
Ko Maung, labor activist, organizer, researcher:
Workers’ self-organisation under military rule: challenges and opportunities in post-coup Myanmar
Support the Charis strikers
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This week in Myanmar: Air strikes kill dozens of civilians and combatants, the Kachin Independence Army and Organisation stand to negotiate with civil society and China on their recent rare earth acquisitions, and Trump's 2025 Secretary of State bucks the isolationist trend.
Email the show at: [email protected] and visit http://www.frontiermyanmar.net/
Timecodes:
1m08s :: Weekly news digest
3m41s :: Trump administration’s effects on Burmese
13m06s :: The Lucky Men Hotel
23m46s :: Kachin’s Special Region 1 & rare earths
39m42s :: CorrespondenceOur guests:
Michael Haack, activist and key organizer for passing the Burma Act in the United States, who wrote about it for Frontier:
How the BURMA Act passed congress
What happened to the BURMA Act?Emily Fishbein, independent journalist with over 50 articles published on Frontier, and many more elsewhere:
Emily’s list of Frontier articles.
Jaw Tu Hkawng, independent journalist and activist, who with Emily and others published the Lucky Men feature discussed in this podcast:
‘The negotiation failed’: Hpakant’s deadly standoff
He also writes with Al Jazeera.In this episode, Jaw also referred to Global Witness reports on rare earths and Hpakant in Myanmar:
Myanmar's poisoned mountains
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This week in Myanmar: Min Aung Hlaing visits China for the first time since his 2021 coup, the Republican party wins elections in the United States of America, shaking up that country's foreign policy, and teachers continue to get shafted by the enfeebled Department of Education under the military regime's State Administration Council.
Email the show at: [email protected] and visit https://www.frontiermyanmar.net/
Timecodes:
1m12s :: Weekly news digest
5m06s :: Changing U.S. policy under Trump elect
9m37s :: Min Aung Hlaing in China
15m46s :: Regime teachers getting shafted
23m16s :: Correspondence updatesOur guests:
Hunter Marston, PhD Candidate at the Australian National University, with publications:
Values over Interests: Variations in US–Myanmar Policy since 1988
The Pendulum of Non-Alignment: Charting Myanmar's Great Power Diplomacy (2011–2021)Ya Nwe, Frontier Myanmar journalist, with reporting that includes:
Unpaid and abandoned: Myanmar junta fails displaced civil servants (discussed today)
Losing count: Chaotic census kicks off
Down and out in the delta: Rakhine IDPs struggle in Ayeyarwady
Anyar rising: Myanmar’s Dry Zone PDFs up the ante -
Frontier Myanmar has a new podcast! Tune in for this first episode of What's Happening in Myanmar, the weekly show keeping you on top of the country's complex developments. In this episode, our guests discuss the pressure being brought to bear on Operation 10/27 and the MNDAA's control of Lashio, as well as the Arakan Army's encirclement of the Western RMC in Ann Township, the UN Special Envoy's trip to Nay Pyi Taw, and more. With guests Jason Tower, Country Director of the Burma program at the United States Institute for Peace; Ko Ye Mon, senior reporter with Frontier; and Ben Dunant, Editor-in-Chief at Frontier. Email the show with your questions and comments at [email protected] and please like, subscribe, and review us on your favourite podcast platforms.
