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Vessels take part in a Thai royal barge procession on the Chao Phraya River for the offering ceremony of the royal kathin robes to Buddhist monks at Wat Arun (Temple of Dawn) on the occasion of Queen Suthida's 48th birthday, which fell in June, in Bangkok on Nov. 6.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Nov 11, 2026
Thailand to raise arsenic-tainted rivers in talks with Myanmar
Arsenic levels surged to as much as 30 times the Thai standard, threatening drinking water and farmland in the country’s north.
Myanmar's coup chief turned president, Min Aung Hlaing. Myanmar was placed on the Financial Action Task Force's blacklist in 2022 as the country was plunged into turmoil and widespread civil war following a military coup.
JAPAN
Nov 5, 2026
Japan denies seeking Myanmar’s removal from blacklist
Myanmar was put on the Financial Action Task Force blacklist in 2022 as the country was plunged into turmoil and civil war following a military coup.
A view of the Peace Palace, which houses the Permanent Court of Arbitration and the International Court of Justice, in The Hague, Netherlands, on June 18
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Nov 5, 2026
Top U.N. court to rule on Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide case
While the ICJ can’t enforce its decisions, a ruling that Myanmar committed genocide would put more international pressure on leader Min Aung Hlaing.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 31, 2026
Japan pushes to remove Myanmar from global financial watchdog’s blacklist
The move is the latest sign that some major countries are looking to bring the pariah state’s military-backed government in from the cold.
The lengths taken by Myanmar to disguise its purchases of Iranian jet fuel suggest U.S. sanctions are biting.
ASIA PACIFIC / Crime & Legal
Oct 26, 2026
How purchases of sanctioned Iranian jet fuel were disguised by Myanmar
The lengths taken to disguise the trade suggest U.S. sanctions are biting, but Iranian jet fuel has continued to flow.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing in Hanoi in September during an official state visit to Vietnam
JAPAN / Politics
Oct 21, 2026
Japan envoy Sasakawa meets Myanmar’s Min Aung Hlaing, state media says
The meeting comes as international reengagement with the Southeast Asian nation has ramped up after years of diplomatic isolation.
Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing delivers a speech via video message during a ceremony in Naypyidaw on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 17, 2026
U.S. holds more secret talks with Myanmar’s military-backed rulers in Tokyo, sources say
It was their second meeting in a month as Washington steps up reengagement with the generals it shunned after their 2021 coup.
Myanmar President Min Aung Hlaing speaks during a joint news conference in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 10, 2026
U.S. lifts sanctions on daughter of Myanmar military-linked businessman
The move comes a after report that said the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump had opened talks with Myanmar’s military-installed government.
Myanmar’s President Min Aung Hlaing inspects an honor guard during a welcoming ceremony ahead of his meeting with Malaysia’s prime minister in Putrajaya, Malaysia, on Thursday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Oct 8, 2026
U.S. opens direct talks with Myanmar’s generals, reversing years of isolation
U.S. outreach has focused on targeting scam centers but could lead to broader engagement, including on Myanmar’s mineral deposits, sources have said.
Victims of scam centers who were tricked or trafficked into working in Myanmar, at a human trafficking hub near the border with Thailand after a multinational crackdown on compounds run by criminal gangs in February 2025.
JAPAN / Crime & Legal
Oct 5, 2026
Thai police rescue two Japanese men believed to have been forced into fraud
The men are believed to have been forced to take part in fraud at a base in Myanmar.
Migrants returning from Malaysia look out from a bus upon their arrival at the Myanmar naval base in Thanlyin, Myanmar, on Sunday.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Oct 4, 2026
Myanmar migrants returned to war-torn nation from Malaysia
The U.N. warns that conditions in Myanmar, consumed by civil war since 2021, mean safe homecomings cannot be guaranteed as required under international law.
Rohingya Muslims in Selangor, Malaysia
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
Malaysia to return thousands to Myanmar, prompting U.N. concerns
The move sparked criticism given the large Myanmar population in Malaysia, including 126,000 Rohingya refugees and asylum-seekers.
Smoke rises as fire burns following a Myanmar military airstrike, according to a rebel group that controls the area and a local aid worker, in Kyauktaw, Rakhine State, Myanmar, in this screen grab obtained from a social media video released Tuesday.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 30, 2026
U.N. alarmed by reports that Myanmar air strike killed 50
The Kyauktaw airstrike is the deadliest such attack since a December hospital bombing killed at least 30 people.
Fruit bats rest on tree branches inside a temple complex in India
ENVIRONMENT / Wildlife
Sep 25, 2026
Study reveals evolutionary history of bats, dating back 65 million years
The largest combined bat genome and fossil study ever conducted is bringing some clarity to the puzzling past of the flying vertebrates.
Remains of unidentified Japanese people who died abroad during World War II are interred at Chidorigafuchi National Cemetery in Tokyo.
JAPAN
Sep 24, 2026
Japan returns wrongly collected remains to Kazakhstan and Myanmar
The move followed the revelation in 2019 that foreign people’s remains had been confused with those of Japanese people detained in Russia after WWII.
Prisoners on a bus react as they are released from Insein Prison as part of an amnesty to mark Myanmar New Year in Yangon, Myanmar, on April 17.
ASIA PACIFIC
Sep 23, 2026
Myanmar female prisoners face torture and neglect, rights group says
Since the military seized power in a February 2021 coup, a protracted civil war has gripped the impoverished Southeast Asian nation.
Myanmar's Wai Khin Hnin kicks a return against Indonesia's Sumaya during the women's singles final teqball match at the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya on Sunday.
MORE SPORTS
Sep 20, 2026
Myanmar captures first Asian Games teqball gold as Spain great Carles Puyol watches
Teqball was invented 14 years ago in a garage in Hungary and features players kicking a ball over a curved table, incorporating elements of the southeast Asian sport sepak takraw.
A participant attends the annual Pride Festival in Hanoi in September 2019. States seeking to stifle work that challenges imposed norms are clearly trying to suppress LGBTQ activism and the community's artistic expression.
COMMENTARY / World
Sep 15, 2026
Art, surveillance and the politics of memory in Southeast Asia
Moral policing and repression across SE Asia increasingly target artists, especially queer and trans creators, threatening cultural expression.
Myanmar's ambassador Kyaw Moe Tun addresses the Human Rights Council at the United Nations in Geneva on March 11, 2019.
ASIA PACIFIC / Politics
Sep 13, 2026
Myanmar says U.N. envoy illegitimate ahead of credentials decision
Appointed by Aung San Suu Kyi’s government, the ambassador broke with his country’s rulers weeks after their military coup in 2021.
A spirit medium, known locally as a <i>nat kadaw</i>, performs a ritual dance during the annual Taungbyone Spirit Festival in Madaya township, Mandalay region, Myanmar, on Aug. 26.
ASIA PACIFIC / Society
Sep 2, 2026
In war-split Myanmar, ‘spirit consorts’ commune across divide
At the annual Taungbyone Festival, the dazzling mediums drank, danced and swooned as they communed with the 111 divine ghosts of ancient Burmese folk religion
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Japan Supreme Court rules 2025 election was held in unconstitutional state
A group of plaintiffs hold up a sign Wednesday in Tokyo saying the Supreme Court ruled the July 2025 Upper House election was conducted in an unconstitutional state.
As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme&#039;s inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
Man arrested over theft of watch that was returned days later to Tokyo mall
A 30-year-old man who is believed to have stolen a luxury wristwatch in Tokyo last month reportedly told police he was the one who had sent it back with a handwritten apology.
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Onosato looks sharp as Kyushu Basho contenders emerge
Onosato (right) and Yoshinofuji crash out of the ring in a closely contested bout at the November Grand Sumo Tournament at Fukuoka Convention Center in Fukuoka on Sunday.
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As JET Programme turns 40, alumni and ministers stress its importance in age of AI
Peter Cave joined the JET Programme&#039;s inaugural cohort in 1987 and spent three years teaching in the city of Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture.
After election drubbing, Trump heads to Asia to show world he’s still in charge
U.S. President Donald Trump speaks near a seal of the Department of Veterans Affairs during a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, on Wednesday.
‘Godzilla Minus Zero’ makes monster debut at the box office
Takashi Yamazaki’s “Godzilla Minus Zero” marked the highest single-day box-office gross for a live-action film in Japan with ?910 million on its opening day.

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