Sittwe City Under Siege by Arakan Army

(Lin Thit’s post from the IRRAWADDY TIMES on 12 March 2026.)

AA (Arakan Army) Tightens Noose in Battle for Rakhine Capital Sittwe: Fighting has intensified around Sittwe as the Arakan Army (AA)’s pincer offensive closes in on the Rakhine State capital, striking junta positions on both the northeastern and northwestern approaches.

AA troops are now attacking the Shwe Min Gan naval base on the city’s northeastern edge as well as a string of fortified regime outposts along the Mayu River to the northwest. Targeted positions include riverbank posts around Ah Myint Kyun and the heavily mined and fortified village of Kywe Tae.

The Kywe Tae fortress is designed to shield the regime’s Padaleik Battalion and the Regional Operations Command headquarters against approaches from AA-held territory across the Mayu estuary.

Pauline Hanson for PM: Aus-Muslims’ Nightmare?

(Oscar Godsell’s post from the SKY NEWS AUSTRALIA on 31 May 2026.)

Pauline Hanson says she’s ready to be Prime Minister of Australia, considering run for lower house seat: One Nation leader Pauline Hanson has declared she’s ready to be the Prime Minister of Australia and is considering running for a seat in the House of Representatives.

Her comments come after a recently published Redbridge-Accent Research seat-by-seat projection showed One Nation could win more than 50 seats at an election. In the wake of the polling, Ms Hanson told Sky News’ Sunday Agenda that she believed she was capable of leading the country as prime minister.

“Do I want to be Prime Minister? Well, I tell you what, I won’t knock the job because I believe that I have the ability to do it,” she said. “I’m not going to underestimate myself or say, 'no, I can’t do it,' because you know, have a look at what we’ve got now. That’s why we’re in a mess.”

Myanmar The Shithole is now A Living Hell on Earth

Myanmar formerly known as Burma or British Burma was well known as The Shithole of South East Asia since the 1962 Military Coup. The world has had a big hope for our Burma when the military dictator ship was transformed into a semi-democratic quasi-civilian system a decade ago. But since 2021 Military Coup staged by the group of motherfucking-Bastard Army Generals (“A Group of Stupid Thugs” according to the US State Department) the notorious shithole is now being turned rapidly into a living hell on this planet.

Economy has completely collapsed, civil war has consumed nearly three quarters of the land, more  than half of population is starving, over 20% of population has been displaced and most ended up struggling in neighbouring Thailand, every military-aged man don’t even dare to go out of their houses for the roaming army’s chain-gangs will be dragging them out of the streets and into the army and sending them onto frontlines to die fighting the rebels. Myanmar simply is a living hell for almost six years now.

Inflation is sky-high people can’t even afford to buy good rice let alone luxury like meat and chicken. For the country formerly well known all over the world as the Rice Bowl of British Empire where sun never set, totally unbelievable.

Arakan Army Chief Htun Myat Naing’s Interview

(Rajeev Bhattacharyya’s post from the DIPLOMAT on 04 May 2026.)

Arakan Army Chief Twan Mrat Naing on Talks With the Myanmar Government, and Relations With India and Bangladesh: “The military government wants to negotiate from a position of strength but we will not succumb to such pressure.”

Arakan Army (AA) and United League of Arakan (ULA) Chief Twan Mrat Naing gives an interview to Rajeev Bhattacharyya at an undisclosed location somewhere in Myanmar’s Arakan region, on March 2, 2026.

The Arakan Army (AA) and its political wing, the United League of Arakan (ULA), are among the largest revolutionary organizations in Myanmar currently battling the government. Seventeen years after it was formed in 2009, the AA controls almost 90 percent of Arakan, the narrow coastal region on the Bay of Bengal in the western region of Myanmar.

The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies

(Steven Poole’s post from the GUARDIAN UK Book Review on 18 Jan 2019.)

The Demon in the Machine by Paul Davies review – what is life? A new theory, which centres on information, is providing some answers in this lucid but speculative exposition.

In 1943 the great physicist Erwin Schrödinger, of both-dead-and-alive-cat fame, gave a series of lectures at Trinity College Dublin, published the next year as his book What Is Life? He supposed that genes must take the form of a “huge molecule” containing a “miniature code” to direct the subsequent development of the organism.

Francis Crick and James Watson, inspired by Schrödinger’s work, later proved him right when they, along with Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins, discovered the structure of DNA.

But Schrödinger’s central question remains unanswered. There is still no agreed-on definition of what life is, let alone how it started. Maybe, some suggest, there are biology-specific laws of nature that we have yet to identify. Indeed, Schrödinger himself argued that “living matter, while not eluding the ‘laws of physics’ as established up to date, is likely to involve ‘other laws of physics’ hitherto unknown”.

Zhou Qunfei: The Founder of Lens Technology

            (Alvin Huang’s post from the FACEBOOK on 16 May2026.)

Touch your phone screen right now. Feel how smooth it is. There's a decent chance the glass under your fingertip was made by a woman who grew up raising pigs and ducks in a village in Hunan province, dropped out of school at 16, and took a factory job making watch lenses for less than a dollar a day.

Her name is Zhou Qunfei. She's the founder of Lens Technology, the company that makes the cover glass for Apple, Samsung, Huawei, and Tesla. She's worth over US$18 billion. She's the world's fourth richest self-made woman. And the entire thing started with a resignation letter.

Zhou was born in 1970 in Xiangxiang, Hunan, the youngest of three children in a family shaped by loss. Before she was born, her father, a former soldier, lost a finger and most of his eyesight in an industrial accident.

He supported the family by weaving bamboo baskets, making chairs, and repairing bicycles. Her mother died when she was five. The girl helped her family raise animals for food and whatever small income they could manage.

Chinese In Australia Will Be Forced Into Citizenship!

     (Kos Samara’s post from the FACEBOOK on 14 May2026.)

(Opposition Leader) Angus Taylor’s Budget in reply. Why has he just turned the blow torch on Chinese Australians? “You cannot access certain government services (such as Age Pension, Dole, and Carer Allowances, etc.) if you are not an Australian citizen, even if you are granted permanent residency.”

The core issue is simple: China does not recognise dual nationality. Under Article 3 of China’s Nationality Law, China does not recognise dual nationality for any Chinese national. Article 9 goes further, any Chinese national who has settled abroad and voluntarily acquires foreign nationality automatically loses their Chinese nationality.

No other major country Australia takes migrants from has this strict a rule. So for a China-born Chinese Australian, taking Australian citizenship is not an administrative step. It is, in legal terms, a severing.

More India-borns Than UK-borns in Australia!

              (Exclusive Minds’ post from the FACEBOOK on 01 May 2026.)

Indians have officially overtaken the English to become Australia’s largest overseas-born migrant group for the first time on record

According to the latest Australian Bureau of Statistics data, 971,020 Australia residents were born in India, narrowly ahead of 970,950 born in England. The shift may look small in numbers, but symbolically, it is huge. For decades, England was Australia’s dominant migrant birthplace outside Australia. Now, India has moved to the top.

The data also shows how fast Australia’s Indian-origin population has grown. In 2015, around 449,000 Australian residents were India-born. By June 2025, that number had more than doubled to 971,020, making India the biggest contributor to Australia’s overseas-born population growth over the past decade.

Is Aung San Suu Kyi Already Dead?

            (Staff post from the MIZZIMA NEWS on 23 December 2025.)

The Myanmar Junta’s Greatest Fear Is Not Aung San Suu Kyi Alive – It Is Her Dead: A question is now being asked openly across international media, diplomatic briefings, and human rights forums: will Aung San Suu Kyi ever be free?

Because the world delayed demanding an answer, another question now carries unavoidable urgency: is she even alive? Aung San Suu Kyi is not a marginal political figure. She is a Nobel Peace Prize laureate, the democratically elected leader of Myanmar, and one of the most globally recognized symbols of nonviolent resistance of the last half-century. Her party won the country’s last free national election in a landslide. For this, she was erased.

Since the military coup of February 2021, she has been held in windowless solitary confinement, in a prison cell whose location remains undisclosed, cut off from lawyers, family, independent doctors, and the outside world. For nearly three years there has been no verified proof of life – no images, no independent medical confirmation, no credible access by neutral observers. This is not neglect. It is grotesque behavior by a regime that understands precisely what it is doing.