After being detained in southern Thailand, Aung Myo Kyaw, a migrant worker from Myanmar, was looking forward to regaining his freedom. It was the end of July 2024, and the 30-year-old construction worker had spent more than 20 days in the immigration detention centre in Ranong. Aung Myo Kyaw knew he would be deported to […]
By Nicha Wachpanich The Thai government is betting big on a land bridge to revolutionise trade routes and propel the economy forward. But in the fishing villages and durian orchards of the South, the question remains: at what cost? Rising out of lush undergrowth like a modern ruin, an unfinished high-rise hotel greets visitors to […]
We arrived in the middle of a quiet night and the door of the small house was open, but the place had the feel of a graveyard. When we arrived, we shone the beam of our torch at the door of the house. The door was open, but the small house belonged to a person […]
One of the biggest groups of victims in the civil war in Myanmar has been elderly people, who cannot run to flee battles or who starve to death or fall ill when there is no one to look after them. Before the fighting broke out, many elderly people in country villages sought Dhamma in their […]
Women in Myanmar who have been raped and sexually assaulted during the ongoing conflict find little help from the junta, or those fighting against it. While there have been active campaigns worldwide to protect women from becoming the victims of sexual violence, women in Myanmar, who have been assaulted sexually, remain helpless while those who […]
A group of conservationists and villagers fought to preserve Myanmar’s southern Pat-Chan River and its mangrove forests – until a military coup forced their efforts to halt TANINTHARYI, MYANMAR — Efforts to conserve rivers and mangroves in southern Myanmar came to a standstill when activists fled the country in fear of their safety. The responsibility […]
Many of Myanmar’s migrant workers in Thailand have been forced to open bank accounts that are then used by others to launder money from illegal online gambling and other illicit sources. Some of the migrants from Myanmar, who only earn a few thousand baht per month on construction sites or in factories, have discovered deposits […]
Most of the fishers in Thailand—one of the countries that have received the biggest value from seafood export—are Myanmar migrant workers who have been fleeing from their country since the coup in 2021. In Thailand, they are facing another threat: working with many risks, ranging from losing body parts to death, without proper protection. This […]
Dawei Watch သတင်းဌာနကို ၂၀၁၂ ခုနှစ် မေလတွင်ထားဝယ်မြို့ အခြေစိုက် စတင် တည်ထောင်ခဲ့သည်။ Dawei Watch သည် ကနဦးတွင် တစ်နိုင်ငံလုံးခြုံထုတ်ဝေသည့် နေ့စဉ် သတင်းစာများ၊ အပတ်စဉ်များကို အဓိကအားဖြင့် တနင်္သာရီတိုင်းနှင့် မွန်ပြည်နယ်အတွင်းမှ သတင်းများ ဝန်ဆောင်မှုပေးလျက်ရှိသည်။ ယင်းအပြင် ထူးခြားမှုအလိုက် ထိုင်းရောက် မြန်မာ ရွှေ့ပြောင်းလုပ်သားများ သတင်းကိုလည်း တင်ဆက်သည်။
