Remember that Chinese balloon that crossed the U.S. two years ago and created a massive stir? It turns out a lot of the technology being used in it was American. Reporting by @dktatlow

Tens of thousands of refugees face the loss of access to hospitals as the Trump administration freezes foreign aid

Hiring mercenaries has rarely turned out well for Congo.

There were 2,846 peaceful protests against military rule in Myanmar in 2024 - compared to 77 demonstrations by the junta’s supporters. The world may not notice but Myanmar’s people are protesting every single day. Source: @data4myanmar

With China suspected of cutting undersea cables in the Baltic and off Taiwan, @dktatlow reveals how Chinese researchers developed plans for tools to cut them

At least 40 civilians are reported killed in a Myanmar junta airstrike on a town in Rakhine State. Such air attacks are destructive and deadly, but have not helped the junta recover the massive terrain its forces have lost.

“All the hallmarks of a political assassination”. Cambodia’s opposition politicians have been banned, arrested and intimidated at home. A killing in Thailand has sent terror through exiles too.

Marking the New Year in Myanmar - with protests against junta rule. Despite killings, arrests, burnings and bombings the protests have been taking place daily for nearly four years. Photos from @Khithitofficial

Myanmar’s junta had burned down well over 100,000 homes by last September in its war against the people who reject its 2021 coup, according to @data4myanmar

Thais called for democracy. But real power is now concentrated between the royal palace and the Shinawatra political dynasty, writes @pwchambers3699

The scale of the defeat of Myanmar’s junta is evident in the Arakan Army’s images of its prisoners after the loss of the Tatmadaw’s Western Command. This was only one of the recent string of losses.

Thai activists who questioned the monarchy’s power are seeing the consequences of 2020 protests that drew tens of thousands to the streets. One activist alone faces a total of 18 years in sentences. @sstrangio

In a matter of days, Myanmar’s military junta has seen its forces collapse in key bases in western Arakan and Chin states. The battle moves to its few remaining strongholds, but those are shrinking too.

China's progress to dominate not only all under the heavens, but the heavens too. @dktatlow reports from Chile's Atacama desert

U.S. on Syria in 1970. It didn't quite go as hoped.

@SusanWGo1 ICC’s jurisdiction is limited because Myanmar is not party to Rome Statute and it would need a Security Council referral to prosecute crimes there. For the Rohingya the argument is that elements of alleged crimes happened in Bangladesh, which is a state party so it can prosecute.

International Criminal Court prosecutor seeks arrest warrant for Myanmar’s junta leader Min Aung Hlaing over Rohingya atrocities. #WhatsHappeninglnMyanmar

In a new blow to Myanmar’s struggling junta, forces of Kachin Independence Army and allied People’s Defence Force claim capture of Kanpaiti town on the border with China - posing a new challenge for Chinese strategy in Myanmar too. #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar