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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social · 4h

“As the military attempts to solidify power with a stage-managed election later this year, it is intensifying an already brutal campaign against pockets of resistance," writes Joe Freeman of @amnesty.org
www.amnesty.org/en/latest/ne...

Myanmar: ‘Deadly attack’ on festival highlights paraglider threat to civilians

Responding to reports of an aerial attack by the Myanmar military that is said to have killed upwards of 20 civilians, including children, when multiple bombs were dropped from motorized paragliders, ...

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Emily Fishbein @emilyfishbein11.bsky.social · 4h

Myanmar has faded from global attention, but its people continue to endure excruciating violence on a daily basis. Monday, the military junta conducted another round of deadly airstrikes, targeting a peaceful candlelight vigil on the Buddhist holiday of Thadingyut (1/2)
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Myanmar: At least 24 killed as army paraglider bombs Buddhist festival

Locals tell the BBC the carnage has made it hard to identify victims of the military attack.

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Rachel Rinaldo @rarinald.bsky.social · 4h

Call for applications -- Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop. Deadline Oct. 20! www.asianstudies.org/call-for-app...

Call for Applications: Global Southeast Asias Dissertation Workshop - Association for Asian Studies

Keywords: Southeast Asia, Global Studies March 10-12, 2026 Vancouver, Canada Application deadline: October 20, 2025 The Association for Asian Studies, with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation, i...

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Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social · 6h

Thank you H.E. Susanna Hla Hla Soe and and @Ther Swe Win for your inspiring speeches in the midst of the horrific happenings in Myanmar. And thank you
Jeanne Marie Hallacy for the honor of Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar" truly a touching movie. Thanks to all for joining!

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 11h

#happeningtoday at SEA Junction! The screening of Thabyay: Creative Resistance in Myanmar start at 5.30pm
Join us at our office (4th Fl., BACC) and online @ SEA-Junction Facebook 🎬

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 10h

#HappeningNow the screening of Thabyay: The Creative Resistance.
Join us on Facebook at www.facebook.com/share/v/17a5...

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 1d

#HappeningTomorrow

Come and see Screening of “Thabyay: Creative Resistance In Myanmar" at 5:30-7:00 pm @SEAJunction, 4th Floor BACC.

A powerful look at Myanmar's revolution through 4 leaders torn between peace and resistance, showing how art fuels hope in the fight for democracy and justice.

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 1d

📚✨ Southeast Asia Mini Book & Craft Fair ✨📚

🗓 October 28–19, 2025
🕚 11 AM – 7 PM
📍 SEA Junction, 4th Fl, BACC

Perfect for readers, collectors & craft lovers alike — come connect with Southeast Asia’s vibrant stories & traditions!

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SEA Junction @seajunction.bsky.social · 1d

📣Upcoming Event
Ants Between Elephants: Cambodian Migrant Workers in Thailand

🗓 21 October 2025
⏰ 5:30 – 7:00 pm
📍 SEA Junction, 4th Floor, BACC

#cambodia #thai #migrants #discussion

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Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social · 1d

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Halloween @blurses.bsky.social · 1d

Let's not forget what's happening in Myanmar.

Good people can and should care about more than one thing

MiMi Aye @meemalee.bsky.social · 1d

It’s the full moon of Thadingyut today - the Burmese Buddhist festival of lights.

I make the same wish that I have done for the last five years.

အရေးတော်ပုံအောင်ရမည် 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

May the revolution succeed in Myanmar 🔥🔥🔥

#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar #Thadingyut

Five small white candles burning in a row

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Judith Beyer @judithbeyer.bsky.social · 2d

Today is the festival of light in Myanmar - held on the Burmese lunar month of #Thadingyut.

Thinking of everyone in #Myanmar tonight while lightening some candles at home, far away from my other home.
May all beings be happy.
Sadhu. Sadhu. Sadhu
🙏🪔🌕

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Ariel Heryanto @arielheryanto.com · 1d

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Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social · 1d

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Arif Gumantia @argum.loves.travel · 1d

Indonesia's Free Meal Program Poisoning Victims Reaches 1,833 a Week; Highest in East Java dlvr.it/TNVP2K #TempoEnglish
#Indonesia

Indonesia's Free Meal Program Poisoning Victims Reaches 1,833 a Week; Highest in East Java

The increase in the number of Indonesia's free meal program (MBG) poisonings this week is higher than the weekly average of victims during September.

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Insight Myanmar Podcast @insightmyanmar.bsky.social · 1d

“It's hard to imagine him [Min Aung Hlaing] planning to be anything else but the boss in a future Myanmar. I believe he wants to jet set around the world as the leader of Myanmar. And he loves that international recognition."

insightmyanmar.org/complete-sho...

Episode #373: Echoes in the Absence — Insight Myanmar

Field Notes from a Vanishing Nation

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Max Walden @maxwalden.bsky.social · 1d

Under a presidential regulation Prabowo signed in late June, but made public only in September, Nusantara has been reclassified as Indonesia’s “political capital” – a phrase absent from existing legislation www.scmp.com/week-asia/po...

Indonesia’s grand capital plan gets a downgrade as Nusantara is redefined

A new regulation calls the city a ‘political capital’, fuelling uncertainty over the future of Joko Widodo’s legacy project.

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Burma Action Ireland @burmaactionireland.bsky.social · 2d

“Without independent #media, there can be no real democracy. That is the simple equation. Our job is to protect democracy by protecting #truth.”
Toe Zaw Latt, #Mizzima senior editor on vital role of indep. media in #Burma’s fight for democracy
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
eaworldview.com/2025/10/burm...

Fighting for Burma's Democracy Through Journalism - EA WorldView

Interview with Toe Zaw Latt of Mizzima about Burma journalism, politics, & youth: "Without independent media, there can be no real democracy"

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bluejacket3.bsky.social @bluejacket3.bsky.social · 2d

Find your “No Kings” event at www.nokings.org

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Arif Gumantia @argum.loves.travel · 2d

Negeri Para Bedebah, novel karya Tere Liye

Negerinya para musang berbulu domba, negerinya pencuri berdasi. Tempat dimana kehidupan terasa jauh lebih fiksi dari pada novel fiksi itu sendiri.
Segala hal bisa terjadi selama melibatkan materi dan kedudukan.
#BookSky

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Lia Sciortino @liasciortino.bsky.social · 2d

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Andreas Harsono @andreasharsono.bsky.social · 2d

Philip Bowring: With the "Patriot Bonds" whose interest rate is lower than the market ones, President Prabowo risks alienating international investors www.asiasentinel.com/p/patriot-bo...

‘Patriot Bonds,’ an Indonesian Shakedown?

Prabowo risks alienating international investors

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POLITICO Europe @politico.eu · 2d

The Italian island of Sardinia is one of the most beautiful places in the world, which raises the question: Where is everyone?

Not tourists — there are plenty of those — but locals. Dozens of villages are emptying.

The big problem? People aren’t having babies.

Sardinia’s demographic winter: Cash, €1 houses and a fight against extinction

The smallest communities offer houses for peanuts and cash to those who want to relocate, start businesses and have kids.

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Philip Jacobson @philjaco.bsky.social · 2d

Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar especially smashed by deforestation in 2024 - new article by @geraldrflynn.bsky.social @mongabay.com

news.mongabay.com/2025/10/prot...

Protected areas hit hard as Mekong countries’ forest cover shrank in 2024

BANGKOK — The Mekong countries of Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand and Vietnam lost a combined area of tree cover of nearly a million hectares in 2024, or an area almost the size of Lebanon. That’s a...

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DVB English News @dvbenglish.bsky.social · 2d

Rights groups working with Karenni in Thailand told DVB that Thai authorities are compiling lists of refugees in camps along the border to see who qualifies for the new work permit, a pilot project that began on Oct. 1 english.dvb.no/thailand-lau...
#WhatsHappeningInMyanmar
#thailand
#Refugees

Thailand launches pilot work permit scheme for refugees this month - DVB

Human rights groups working with ethnic Karenni from Myanmar in Thailand told DVB that Thai authorities are compiling lists of refugees inside the nine camps along the Thai-Myanmar border to see who q...

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