Forced From Home by War, They Found Solace in Soccer
It was just a regular practice, but the players were excited to get on the soccer field. They divided into teams and chose from an array of bibs that all bore the same message: “Women Win.”
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Thai border town offers geopolitical lesson for India
Mae Sot, a Thai trading center on the border with Myanmar, has two very noticeable characteristics: It is prosperous, and it is full of refugees from Myanmar. In both ways, the town offers a striking contrast to my home in northeastern India, which also borders Myanmar, where official hostility to illegal immigrants is damaging both refugees and the local economy.
Myanmar’s Junta Recaptures Town That Was a Significant Gain for Rebels
The Myanmar junta has recaptured the town of Myawaddy, an important trading hub on the border with Thailand, reversing a key victory for resistance soldiers who seized it nearly two weeks ago then were forced to withdraw, a spokesman for the rebel Karen National Union said on Wednesday.
Fighting flares at Myanmar-Thai border as rebels target stranded junta troops
Fighting raged at Myanmar's eastern frontier with Thailand on Saturday (April 20), both governments said, forcing 3,000 civilians to flee as rebels fought to flush out Myanmar junta troops holed up for days at a bridge border crossing.
About 1,300 people from Myanmar flee into Thailand after clashes broke out in a key border town
BANGKOK (AP) — About 1,300 people have fled from eastern Myanmar into Thailand, officials said Saturday, as fresh fighting erupted at a border town that has recently been captured by ethnic guerillas.
Thai foreign minister urges Myanmar’s military to avoid violent attack on border town its army lost
MAE SOT, Thailand (AP) — Thailand’s foreign minister on Friday said he urged Myanmar’s military authorities not to violently respond to its army’s loss of an important border trading town to its opponents, and that so far they seemed to be exercising restraint.
Exodus to Thailand continues after fall of key Myanmar border town
MAE SOT, Thailand — A stream of people, some fearing air strikes, queued at a border crossing to flee Myanmar early on Friday (April 12), a day after the strategically vital town of Myawaddy near Thailand fell to anti-junta resistance that is gaining strength.
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