The United States has been holding secretive talks with a regime it has accused of genocide, and experts believe it could come down to rare earths.
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Kim Aris, the younger son of imprisoned democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi, says he still doesn’t know where his mother is being held. For nearly six years, the ruling junta did not permit him to speak with her, until October, when they allowed for one 20-minute phone call. He’s received no update on her status since, despite his regular demands to establish a formal line of communication. Aris continues to call for greater international support for his mother’s release and Myanmar’s fight for democracy following the 2021 military coup. CNN’s Heather Law reports.
Kathmandu. Small oil industries in the dry central region of Myanmar have become targets of the civil war after the war in West Asia increased pressure on fuel supply. As oil prices rise, the compe...
The jade-smuggling trade is growing in Myanmar, exposing how the global hunger for precious minerals can finance and fuel conflict.
Libby Hogan is a journalist and producer with ABC's Asia Pacific Newsroom. In 2017 she was awarded a grant from National Geographic as one of their Young Explorers to continue her reporting on the conflict in Kachin State, in the north of Myanmar.
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