{"podcast":{"title":"What's Happening in Myanmar","slug":"what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140","podcast_index_feed_id":7079140,"rss_url":"https://feeds.libsyn.com/553687/rss","website_url":"https://www.whimyanmar.com/","image_url":"https://static.libsyn.com/p/assets/3/d/1/9/3d1908da83ae445de55e3c100dce7605/Logo_PNG_3.png","author":"Luke Corbin","episode_count":81,"summary":"Join journalists and experts discussing the biggest Myanmar news stories in this weekly show from the Frontier Myanmar podcast family. Reliable. Concise. Informative.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-17T18:19:16.185351+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140"},"episode":{"title":"Resistance In-fighting Amid Election Results","slug":"resistance-in-fighting-amid-election-results","published_at":"2026-02-20T11:47:47+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140/resistance-in-fighting-amid-election-results","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140","url":"https://whimyanmar.com/resistance-in-fighting-amid-election-results","audio_url":"https://traffic.libsyn.com/secure/36d34b66-8eae-49d8-ab08-23c01884d0b6/Session_mixdown_200226.mp3?dest-id=4780972","summary":"With Jason Tower, senior expert, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. This fortnight on episode 64 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the military publishes full results for its pre-determined election, military appointees are assigned to parliament, the USDP negotiates with the regime on the make-up of government, and we discuss intra-resistance infighting and the China-scam dynamic in regime politics. Email the show at whimyanmar@proton.me Timecodes— (00:00) Opening (02:22) Election results and appointees (05:03) With Jason Tower, the Chinese New Year statements (18:26) The scam industry (39:49) Myanmar's warlord period (46:44) Close Our guests— Jason Tower, senior expert, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. New on the Frontier website: The poverty of 'conflict studies' in Myanmar In the shadow of conflict, a gold rush erupts on the Chindwin River 'We survive one day at a time': The resistance holds on to Mawdaung Holding the line in Mawdaung Referenced this episode: Untangling Scam Kingpins' Ties to the Chinese Government","meta_description":"With Jason Tower, senior expert, Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime. This fortnight on episode 64 of What's Happening in Myanmar, the…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2908,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140/episodes/resistance-in-fighting-amid-election-results/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/what-s-happening-in-myanmar-7079140/resistance-in-fighting-amid-election-results.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}