With Jacob Sims, visiting fellow at Harvard University's Asia Centre. This week on episode 49 of What's Happening in Myanmar, election campaign updates and voter list concerns, the military retakes Hsipaw and loses Nat Yay Kan, and we discuss human trafficking and the fallout of the scam crackdown from earlier this year.

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Timecodes—

01m10s :: Election updates
04m07s :: Nat Yay Kan lost to AA
05m02s :: PDF prison breakout in Hakha
05m46s :: Hsipaw lost to the military
07m20s :: With Jacob Sims, TIP human trafficking report
18m55s :: Scams since the crackdown
23m48s :: Indictment of Chen Zhi
33m03s :: Income generation and substitution after the scams
40m05s :: Close

Our guests—

Jacob Sims, visiting fellow at Harvard University's Asia Centre and expert on organised crime in Southeast Asia

Two paths to the bottom: When states become sponsors of human trafficking

New original content on the Frontier website:

'I don't know what comes next': US visa ban quashes Myanmar students' dreams
Women in central Myanmar struggle with low wages

Further referenced this episode:

Myanmar scam cities booming despite crackdown – using Musk's Starlink