With Pai Deetes, Southeast Asia Program Regional Campaigns Director at International Rivers. This week on What’s Happening in Myanmar, the military regime lifts the state of emergency and enacts new laws for elections, making coup leader Min Aung Hlaing the temporary acting president, and we discuss the transboundary water contamination from mines in Myanmar affecting northern Thailand.
Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me
Timecodes—
00m50s :: News round up
02m30s :: Military groundwork for elections
06m34s :: U.S. sanctions lifted and rare earth lobbying
09m23s :: With Pai Deetes, contamination of northern Thai rivers
32m22s :: Escalating the issue to regional fora
38m58s :: Close
Our guest—
Pai Deetes, the Southeast Asia Program Regional Campaigns Director at International Rivers
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