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RFA staffers Jim Snyder and Gemunu Amarasinghe recently traveled to Myanmar's Kayah state where rebel insurgents have taken control of the countryside and are trying to establish a new state government.

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Production engineer Wa Than discusses his recent trip to Thailand where he met with Burmese youth who fled the Myanmar junta's conscription orders.

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*Off Beat*

An exodus of TikTok users are migrating en masse to another Chinese social media platform, RedNote, also known as Xiaohongshu. RFA Uyghur's Shahrezad Ghayrat, breaks it down for us.

*Double Off Beat*

RFA Mandarin's Kitty Wang discusses U.S.-China relations under the new administration from China's point of view

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This is a "clip episode" highlighting some of the best moments of RFA Insider in 2024, its first year in production.

We explored many topics in our first year, including:

• Vietnamese Monk Thich Minh Tue and his pilgrimage across the country, and who is now traveling on foot to India.
• North Korea sending soldiers to fight alongside Russia against Ukraine, and both countries trying to hide their presence, including by allegedly burning the faces of dead North Korean soldiers to hide their race.
• The trial of Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai
• Panda Diplomacy and the return of pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, DC.
• RFA Lao's decision to change its output from traditional Lao to modern Lao.

And many more.

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