China’s occupation of Tibet makes it an “upstream controller” of seven South Asian rivers including the Indus, Ganges, Brahmaputra, Irrawaddy, Salween, Yangtze, and Mekong, which flow into ...
“The fighting took place on the Taungup-Pandaung road in the Arakan Mountains. I heard several people were killed and injured,” he told The Irrawaddy. The Irrawaddy could not contact other locals for ...
Whether the Arakan Army (AA) will halt a devastating offensive it is blazing through Rakhine State depends on the military regime, AA spokesman Khaing Thukha has told The Irrawaddy. The ethnic armed ...