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Aidan Jones - Myanmar youth look to flee conscription or join armed rebels fighting junta: ‘the army is losing control’ - scmp.com - Burma -  Yangon - state Karenni

Myanmar youth look to flee conscription or join armed rebels fighting junta: ‘the army is losing control’

“Join us,” John Paw, 27, of the Karenni Nationalities Defence Force (KNDF), one of the largest PDFs in Myanmar that supports local ethnic armed groups, told This Week in Asia.

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GRANT PECK - Aung Hlaing - Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise - apnews.com - China - Burma - Thailand -  Bangkok - state Rakhine

Many in Myanmar consider fleeing to Thailand to escape conscription into an army they despise

BANGKOK (AP) — Thwel, a 25-year-old schoolteacher, saw very few options left to her after Myanmar’s military announced it is implementing conscription to fill its ranks.

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Dylan Butts - Delivery Hero ends talks to sell Foodpanda in Southeast Asia after months of negotiations - cnbc.com - Philippines - Burma - Thailand - Malaysia - Singapore - Germany - Cambodia -  Singapore - Laos

Delivery Hero ends talks to sell Foodpanda in Southeast Asia after months of negotiations

German food delivery giant Delivery Hero announced it has ended negotiations with an undisclosed third party regarding the potential sale of its Foodpanda business in selected Southeast Asian markets, where it is attempting to downsize. 

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Helen Regan - ‘I don’t want to kill’: Conscription law sparks fear in war-torn Myanmar - edition.cnn.com - Burma - Thailand -  Yangon - county Young

‘I don’t want to kill’: Conscription law sparks fear in war-torn Myanmar

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Feds accuse alleged Japanese crime boss of conspiring to traffic nuclear material - apnews.com - Japan - Burma - Thailand - New York - Iran

Feds accuse alleged Japanese crime boss of conspiring to traffic nuclear material

NEW YORK (AP) — A leader of a Japan-based crime syndicate conspired to traffic uranium and plutonium from Myanmar in the belief that Iran would use it to make nuclear weapons, U.S. prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

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Justice Department - U.S. charges Japanese crime leader with nuclear materials trafficking - asia.nikkei.com - Japan - Burma - Washington - Iran

U.S. charges Japanese crime leader with nuclear materials trafficking

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -- U.S. authorities on Wednesday charged the leader of a Japanese crime syndicate with conspiring to traffic nuclear materials from Myanmar for expected use by Iran in nuclear weapons, the Justice Department said.

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Agence FrancePresse - US charges yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa over bid to sell nuclear material - scmp.com - Japan - Usa - Burma - Thailand

US charges yakuza leader Takeshi Ebisawa over bid to sell nuclear material

US authorities said on Wednesday that they had charged a member of the Japanese yakuza criminal underworld with handling nuclear material sourced from Myanmar and seeking to sell it to fund an illicit arms deal.

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Zaw Min Tun - Nikkei staff writers - Myanmar military exempts women from draft for now - asia.nikkei.com - Burma -  Bangkok -  Yangon

Myanmar military exempts women from draft for now

BANGKOK/YANGON -- Myanmar's military government said it will exempt women for the time being from mandatory conscription set to begin in late April, in what may be a response to public outcry over the move.

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