The Kachin Independence Army has been fighting in Kachin State’s second city for five months and is now facing regime counterattacks.

While going out of its way to help the junta get its nerve center back up and running, China also continues to lean on the ethnic resistance to give back territory to the regime.

India says it destroyed nine terrorist camps in retaliation for militant attack in Kashmir, as Pakistani shelling reportedly kills 12 near the border.

Malaysia should use the remaining months of its ASEAN chairmanship to push for some real solutions to the Myanmar crisis, which cannot involve the junta, says Paul Greening.