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Mohammad Yunus - Save Southeast Asia’s mangrove forests or risk environmental devastation - scmp.com - Indonesia - Burma - Thailand - Malaysia - India

Save Southeast Asia’s mangrove forests or risk environmental devastation

Myanmar has experienced a significant loss of its national mangrove forests, primarily due to the expansion of the rice, palm oil and rubber plantation sectors in recent decades. Similarly, in Indonesia and Thailand, mangrove forests have undergone substantial degradation, largely because of the growth of aquaculture, which has altered the natural landscape and disturbed the hydrological system, inducing pollution and algal blooms.

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Myanmar junta's conscription plan lays bare toll of fighting rebels - asiaone.com - China - Usa - Burma - Bangladesh

Myanmar junta's conscription plan lays bare toll of fighting rebels

The Myanmar's military conscription plan reveals the heavy toll that months of incessant fighting against rebels have had on its troops and the struggles the generals are facing to replenish their ranks, analysts, diplomats and a defector said.

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Myanmar junta must stop targeting women and children - asiatimes.com - Burma - state Karenni

Myanmar junta must stop targeting women and children

On a quiet morning on February 5, children in Deemaw Soe Township, Karenni state, attended school as usual. Despite fierce fighting throughout the state, no recent conflict in the area suggested an attack was looming.

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Zaw Min Tun - In April - Myanmar junta plans to implement mandatory military service in April, media say - asiaone.com - Burma

Myanmar junta plans to implement mandatory military service in April, media say

Myanmar's ruling military plans to call up young people for mandatory service from April and also require retired security personnel to serve, media reports cited a junta spokesman as saying, as the army struggles to crush an anti-junta insurgency.

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Zaw Min Tun - GRANT PECK - Min Aung Hlaing - Myanmar says newly activated conscription law will draft 5,000 people a month. Some think of fleeing - apnews.com - Burma -  Bangkok - Washington

Myanmar says newly activated conscription law will draft 5,000 people a month. Some think of fleeing

BANGKOK (AP) — Myanmar’s military government on Wednesday said it will draft 60,000 young men and women yearly for military service under its newly activated conscription law, with call-ups beginning after the April festival marking the country’s traditional New Year.

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David Scott Mathieson - Myanmar junta press-gang drive certain to backfire - asiatimes.com - Burma - county Sac

Myanmar junta press-gang drive certain to backfire

Myanmar’s auto-destruct military regime has produced another data point of desperation by invoking an unused conscription law, fueling alarm that men aged between 18 and 35 and women between 18 and 27 could be called up for duty for anywhere between two to five years.

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Contributing writer - GWEN ROBINSON - Nikkei Asia editoratlarge - 'I'd rather cut off a few fingers': Myanmar's draft fuels popular backlash - asia.nikkei.com - Burma -  Bangkok

'I'd rather cut off a few fingers': Myanmar's draft fuels popular backlash

BANGKOK -- The announcement of sweeping conscription rules by Myanmar's military government has sparked a social media backlash and fresh calls by resistance forces for popular support. The move also marks a turning point for the military, which has portrayed itself as a professional fighting force but has seen accelerating defeats and desertions in recent months.

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Contributing writer - In the Golden Triangle, long-dead drug warlords hold visitors in thrall - asia.nikkei.com - Burma - Thailand - Laos

In the Golden Triangle, long-dead drug warlords hold visitors in thrall

In a jungle clearing deep inside Southeast Asia's opium-growing Golden Triangle, four young men light incense sticks and kneel to pray before a bronze statue of an imposing figure astride a horse.

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