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With Dr. Monalisa Adhikari, senior lecturer in international politics at the University of Stirling. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, mass Rohingya drownings at sea, KNLA victories, TNLA defeats, and we discuss the negativity surrounding the recent ASEAN summit in Malaysia and its ineffectual statement on Myanmar.
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01m07s :: News roundup
06m57s :: With Monalisa Adhikari, the ASEAN summit
27m10s :: India and China working with ASEAN
32m00s :: Peace processes in Myanmar
37m46s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Monalisa Adhikari
See her institutional bio here for a list of her publications
New original content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
Editorial: ASEAN is sliding into irrelevance on Myanmar
âThey look down on us for being Muslimsâ: Kaman marginalised in YangonAnd also referenced in this episode:
Justice For Myanmarâs recent report
The UNOHCHRâs recent report -
With Angshuman Choudhury, doctoral candidate at the National University of Singapore and King's College London. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, thousands of workers successfully strike for better factory conditions, and we discuss the murky killing of 10 Myanmar rebels by Indiaâs Assam Rifles.
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01m02s :: Successful strike in Hlaingtharya West
03m37s :: With Angshuman Choudhury, killings in Tamu
21m50s :: India and the Rohingya
29m18s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Angshuman Choudhury, Doctoral candidate in Comparative Asian Studies at the National University of Singapore and King's College London, and a long-time watcher of India-Myanmar affairs
New content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
Rights deferred: Citizenship reform mothballed in Myanmar
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Zijn er afleveringen die ontbreken?
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With Richard Horsey, senior Myanmar adviser at the International Crisis Group. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military kills dozens of civilians in multiple major air strikes across the country, coup leader Min Aung Hlaing visits Russia again, and we discuss Myanmarâs relationship with that country.
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00m55s :: Air strikes kill children and civilians
03m37s :: With Richard Horsey, Min Aung Hlaingâs jubilance
09m35s :: The Myanmar-Russia relationship
30m32s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Richard Horsey, Senior Myanmar Adviser at the International Crisis Group.
Richardâs 2022 report with the International Crisis Group on Myanmar-Russia relations
And check out the groupâs recent April briefing on the Myanmar-India borderNew content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
Logged out: Conflict drives deforestation in Bago mountains
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With Jared Bissinger, a visiting fellow at the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS â Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and research lead at Catalyst Economics. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, eyes are still on northern Shan State as the military pressures the TNLA after retaking Lashio, and we discuss how armed groups in Myanmar run their economies.
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01m09s :: Northern Shan State news
06m40s :: With Jared Bissinger, non-state actorsâ economic governance
42m11s :: CloseOur guestâ
Jared Bissinger, a visiting fellow at the Myanmar Studies Program at ISEAS â Yusof Ishak Institute in Singapore and research lead at Catalyst Economics.
His ISEAS and Singapore work:
Economic Governance of Non-State Authorities in Myanmar: Potentials and Pitfalls
Challenges and Priorities for Myanmarâs Conflicted Economy
Myanmarâs Earthquake Threatens a Lasting Economic Scar
The State Administration Council and the Restyling of Myanmarâs Economy
Myanmarâs Resistance and the Future of Border Trade: Challenges and OpportunitiesNew content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
âThey donât represent usâ: Rohingya armed groups wreak havoc in Rakhine
Q&A: Explaining Myanmarâs private security law -
With Htet Aung, a journalist with Frontier Myanmar. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military floats moving its damaged ministries back to Yangon while killing hundreds of people in the month since the March 28 earthquake, and we discuss the challenges of reporting on the quake and its devastating aftermath in Mandalay and Sagaing.
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01m15s :: A month after the quake
05m56s :: With Htet Aung, reporting on the quake
16m30s :: Naypyitaw and damaged ministries
22m50s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Htet Aung, independent journalist, and regular contributor to our newsletters and features
New content on the Frontier website since our last episode:
Striking oil: Magway Regionâs resource wealth draws junta fire
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With director of the Kachinland Research Centre Danseng Lawn and independent journalist Lorcan Lovett. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military reoccupies Lashio with help from the MNDAA and China, while still fighting the TNLA nearby, and we discuss the military defeats this month at Falam and Indaw.
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01m21s :: Lashio back in the fold
06m08s :: With Danseng Lawn, Indaw military defeat
21m14s :: With Lorcan Lovett, Falam military defeat
37m04s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Lorcan Lovett, independent journalist, his On Myanmar Substack
And Dan Seng Lawn, Director of the Kachinland Research Centre
New content on the Frontier website since our last episodeâ
US aid cuts kneecap Myanmar in fight against tuberculosis
Myanmarâs resistance faces a moral quandary after the quake
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With Nay Lin, a fundraiser and coordinator of earthquake relief efforts. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military is routed from Falam and Indaw, but looks set to walk into Lashio, and we discuss the challenges meeting humanitarian needs after the earthquake.
Note: There will be no episode next week, April 18, due to the Thingyan holiday.
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1m10s :: War updates
5m16s :: With Nay Lin, relief efforts for the quake
29m03s :: CloseOur guestâ
Nay Lin, coordinating earthquake relief efforts for local communities
His most recent fundraiser
New content on the website this week:
Editorial: Quake response shows where juntaâs priorities lie
âWe didnât find anyone aliveâ: Earthquake buries the faithful at Sagaing religious sites
Down and out: Junta offers scant help to homeless civil servants
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With Vicky Bowman, former U.K. ambassador to Myanmar, and director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the devastating earthquake of a century, and we discuss the new private security services law and Chinese boots on the ground.
Donate for the quake here
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1m27s :: Earthquake
19m36s :: With Vicky Bowman, private security law
52m01s :: CloseOur guestâ
Vicky Bowman, director of the Myanmar Centre for Responsible Business
Their baseline report
New content on the Frontier website this week:
âWe hear screams all the timeâ: Volunteer rescue teams shoulder post-quake burden
Facebookâs âlethal carelessnessâ in Myanmar
Embracing the enemy: Resistance forces welcome new defectors
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With Ye Htet, a scholar and trainer in nonviolent resistance at the Freedom Fighter Myanmar organisation. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the Arakan Army fights on and looks set to forcibly recruit, Aung Zeya pulls back, and we discuss transitional justice and nonviolent resistance to military rule.
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1m15s :: News round-up
6m38s :: With Ye Htet, nonviolence
18m52s :: Transitional justice
33m31s :: CloseOur guestâ
Ye Htet, a scholar and trainer in nonviolent resistance at the Freedom Fighter Myanmar organisation
Rethinking justice in the present
Itâs time to rethink the CDM
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With Daw Khin Soe Win, previously chief of the Voice of America Burmese service, and Salai Dokhar, founder of India for Myanmar. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the leader of ARSA is arrested, the Arakan Army continues its military victories, we talk about the United States gutting the Voice of America, and also the new political umbrella organisation of Chin resistance groups.
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1m10s :: News from Rakhine State and the region
7m28s :: United Statesâ cuts threatening Myanmar
11m14s :: With Khin Soe Win
26m39s :: With Salai Dokhar
43m03s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Daw Khin Soe Win, previously chief of the Voice of America Burmese service:
She interviewed Dau Aung San Suu Kyi after release from house arrest in 2011, and this is one of her most cherished memories.
And Salai Dokhar, the founder of India for Myanmar, a group based in India advocating for human rights and democracy in Myanmar:
From neighbors to negotiators: Indiaâs role in resolving the Myanmar crisis
And for a press freedom insiderâs take on whatâs happened to Voice of America, try this piece by Liam Scott
And donât forget to check out Frontierâs reflection on Naing Myanmar
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With Andrew Nachemson, former managing editor of Frontier Myanmar, and a freelance journalist. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military signs investment deals and signals more to come, as fresh sanctions and expropriations target the regime and its cronies. Andy and I speak about the unique political and conflict context in Mon State, through the lens of the New Mon State Party and its revolutionary faction, the New Mon State Party-Anti Dictatorship.
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1m01s :: Weekly news digest
6m43s :: With Andrew Nachmeson, the New Mon State Party-AD
14m36s :: Territory under the NMSP
23m38s :: The NMSP and drones, threats to civilians
39m33s :: CloseOur guestâ
Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier, and a freelance journalist.
Andy has many publications available via Google, and the article we discuss will be dropping on Frontierâs website next week. But for more context, check out his January dispatch from Karen State for Al Jazeera. And for more information on this weekâs sanctions, see the Justice for Myanmar press releases about Canada and Switzerland.
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With Dr. Evan A. Laksmana, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence, and Editor of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, Min Aung Hlaing visits Russia with great fanfare, while resistance forces cohereâand attack each other. We discuss with Evan the prospects for any meaningful action on Myanmar from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.
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0m52s :: Resistance fractures and coheres
4m14s :: Min Aung Hlaing goes to Russia
6m27s :: With Evan, the ASEAN 5 point consensus
29m30s :: China and Russia in relation to ASEAN
33m58s :: Election prospects for ASEAN
39m45s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Dr Evan A. Laksmana, Shangri-La Dialogue Senior Fellow for Southeast Asian Security and Defence, and Editor of the Asia-Pacific Regional Security Assessment, at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=mkZfQnAAAAAJ&hl=en
Frontierâs recent content referred to in the podcast:
How could I do any less?
Final crackdown
Uncertain fate for Lashio
Rethinking ASEANâs Five-Point Consensus
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With Ko Kyaw Naing, an employee since 2012 of a civil society organization in Rakhine State, and also another unnamed guest, a Rohingya youth living in Sittwe. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military stocks drones in Karen State, more chemical weapons accusations, some scam workers go free, and we speak about the impending attack on the Rakhine State capital, Sittwe.
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1m33s :: Weekly news digest
5m07s :: With Ko Kyaw Naing, the Arakan Armyâs attack on Sittwe
11m01s :: AA administration
18m11s :: With a Rohingya youth, on the ground in Sittwe
34m41s :: CloseOur guestsâ
Ko Kyaw Naing, an employee since 2012 of a civil society organization in Rakhine State. Our second guest is an unnamed Rohingya youth, currently living in Sittwe, who declined to use a pseudonym.
There are no links or publications from our listeners this week, but we do refer to the Frontier feature from last year, No smoke without fire? Chemical weapons accusations continue. And Frontierâs other free content this week:
Rethinking ASEANâs Five-Point Consensus
Killing creativity: The juntaâs cultural crusade
Severed lifelines: Tanintharyi communities starved of food and medicine
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With Sean Turnell, Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military ships nearly 1,000 Rohingya from Yangon to wartorn Sittwe, Chinese are repatriated from border scam compounds, and we speak about the militaryâs access to foreign exchange and other finance matters in the wake of the new report, The Military, Money, and Myanmar: Breaking the Nexus.
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1m15s :: Weekly news digest
7m35s :: With Sean Turnell, the militaryâs finances
10m40s :: Foreign exchange
13m30s :: Sanctions on Myanmarâs banks
21m16s :: Financing the resistance
28m06s :: Multilateral institutions noting the NUG
37m06s :: Close
Our guestâ
Sean Turnell, Honorary Professor of Economics at Macquarie University, Senior Fellow at the Lowy Institute, and author of the 1999 book Fiery Dragons: Banks, Moneylenders and Microfinance in Burma, and more recently, An Unlikely Prisoner: How an Eternal Optimist Found Hope in Myanmarâs Most Notorious Jail. Sean advised the National League for Democracy government on economic matters from 2016-2020, was detained and locked up by the military for 650 days following the 2021 coup, and now serves as Special Advisor to the alternative National Unity Governmentâs Interim Central Bank.
The Military, Money, and Myanmar: Breaking the Nexus
And hereâs links to the Frontier Myanmar interviews with Dr Sui Khar and Thai opposition MP Rangsiman Rome.
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With Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, ASEAN continues talking consensus, Sittwe fighting begins in earnest, and we speak about the scam industry in the region, as hundreds of trafficked victims go free from Myawaddy.
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0m58s :: Weekly news digest
8m33s :: With Sue-Lin Wong, the scam industry
15m06s :: Why do people fall for scams?
17m22s :: Coercion and worker trafficking
23m11s :: Chinese experience of scams
25m26s :: Absent connection to CCP
31m45s :: Future of scams
34m52s :: Close
Our guestâ
Sue-Lin Wong, Southeast Asia correspondent for The Economist.
Introduction to Scam Inc.
Online scams may already be as big a scourge as illegal drugs
And read Frontierâs editorial this week on the dangers posed by Elon Musk.
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With Lorcan Lovett, independent journalist and Substack writer, with bylines in The Guardian, Al Jazeera, the Sunday Times and more. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, conscripts are barred from monasteries, fuel dries up at key border towns, and we discuss the final fight in the Chin National Defense Force push for Falam, in Chin State.
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0m54s :: Weekly news digest
8m14s :: With Lorcan Lovett, fighting in Falam
15m18s :: Reinforcements
18m35s :: Freedom of movement
24m08s :: Civilian and rebel life
28m40s :: Chin resistance schism
37m54s :: CloseOur guestâ
Lorcan Lovett, an independent journalist and Substack writer.
Lorcanâs Substack, âOn Myanmarâ
His first Chin State dispatch: âThey plucked out his eye with a motorbike key ⊠I wanted to kill themâ
Andâ
The Institute of Chin Affairs report referred to in this podcast can be found here.
For more context on the Chin resistance split, check out this Frontier feature from last year.
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With Erin Murphy, author of the book Burmese Haze and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, and Minnie, a Myanmar INGO practitioner actively engaged in various initiatives related to gender equality, social inclusion, democracy and human rights. Through USAID funding, her work has focused on projects that aim to create a more transparent government, civic inclusion, and include the voices of marginalized communities. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, Chinese representatives visit Lashio, Bhamo airport is lost to the Kachin Independence Army, and we talk all about the USAID funding freeze.
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1m36s :: Weekly news digest
5m32s :: With Erin & Minnie, USAID funding freeze
9m28s :: Forewarning and U.S. strategy
15m50s :: Importance of USAID to Myanmar
21m09s :: Effect on AID workers
24m59s :: Near term future
30m47s :: Close
Our guestsâ
Erin Murphy, author of the book Burmese Haze and Senior Fellow at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies.
Minnie, a Myanmar INGO practitioner actively engaged in various initiatives related to gender equality, social inclusion, democracy and human rights.
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With Vox, a Digital Security Trainer from the Myanmar Internet Project (MIP) and Spring Revolution Security (SRS). This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the MNDAA signs a ceasefire, nearly everyone talks scam centres, the Arakan Army pushes further towards the beach resort town of Chaungtha, and we discuss the new Cybersecurity Law enacted on January 1.
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1m26s :: Weekly news digest
10m32s :: With Vox, the development of the Cybersecurity Law
14m57s :: Origins of law with NLD & experts
17m37s :: The lawâs problems
21m23s :: Influence on the economy and business
31m53s :: Close
Our guestsâVox, a Digital Security Trainer from the Myanmar Internet Project and Spring Revolution Security.
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With Hka San Lwi, Editor-in-Chief of Kachin Waves. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, a deadly landslide hits Hpakant, the National Unity Government moots setting up shop in Sagaing, the State Administration Council bans LGBT publications, and we discuss the ongoing battle for Bhamo and the importance of that city in northern Myanmar.
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Timecodesâ
1m33s :: Weekly news digest
8m38s :: The Battle for Bhamo
19m53s :: CloseOur guestâ
Hka San Lwi, Editor-in-Chief of Kachin Waves:
https://kachinwaves.com/
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With Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier Myanmar, and freelance journalist. This week on Whatâs Happening in Myanmar, the military regime pardons thousands of prisoners, Arakan Army fighting expands into Ayeyarwady Region, a Chinese celebrity is trafficked and rescued in Myawaddy, and we discuss the revolution in Karen State, including the fate of the Aung Zaya column, Border Guard Force politics, and the Karen National Unionâs administration.
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0m46s :: Weekly news digest
4m40s :: Andrewâs trip details & logistics
9m14s :: Aung Zaya column
14m14s :: KNLAâs perception of Border Guard Force
19m25s :: KNU administration
23m53s :: Wider revolutionary context and KNLAâs modest gains
35m39s :: Close
Our guestâ
Andrew Nachemson, former Managing Editor of Frontier Myanmar and freelance journalist:
Myanmar anti-coup forces target Mandalay in struggle to oust military
Where the Resistance Rules in Myanmar
Myanmarâs Armed Groups And Democracy Activists Are Joining Forces
Finding Marwi in Loikaw
âWeâll never give upâ: The fight for Loikaw
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