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October 20, 2021
The co-founder of Mizzima media, Daw Thin Thin Aung, and staff member, James Pu Thoure, were freed from Insein jail in Yangon together with other...
October 20, 2021
Myanmar's military-appointed authorities are doing their best to revive an economy in turmoil since the February coup and stabilise the kyat, a...
October 19, 2021
Trading through the Sittwe border trade centre to Bangladesh has resumed since October 16, but the Maungdaw border trade centre could not be reopened...
Newly-released prisoners wave from a bus as they depart the Insein Prison in Yangon on October 18, 2021, after authorities announced more than 5,000 people jailed for protesting against a February coup which ousted the civilian government would be released. AFP
October 19, 2021
Myanmar's junta chief Monday announced the release of more than 5,000 people jailed for protesting against a February coup, days after a regional...
October 19, 2021
Nine old men were arrested by the junta after a person who is notorious as a military informant was killed in Launglon township, Dawei District...
Photo: MP U Lwin Maung Maung.
October 19, 2021
Police re-arrested 10 detainees, including a parliamentarian of the ruling National League for Democracy party, at the main gate of Meikhtila Prison...
October 19, 2021
Myitkyina, the capital of Kachin State, recorded its hottest day in more than a decade last Tuesday, 12 October, at 37.5 degrees Celsius, breaking a...
October 19, 2021
Many people in Nyaung Lay Pin District in Bago Region had symptoms of COVID-19 and some of them have died, although very few people have been tested...
October 18, 2021
The Burma Army has reinforced it troop numbers in Northern Karen State and has linked up with its Border Guard Force to launch offensives in the...
October 18, 2021
Villagers in the Karen National Union-controlled areas of Thaton District reported human rights violations by the Burma Army and its militia...
October 18, 2021
Locals said a female employee of a mobile phone shop in Sagaing township was arrested by the Military Council for allegedly having links with the...
October 18, 2021
A Covid-19 vaccination campaign targeting more than 120,000 students aged 12 and above from 10 townships in the northern part of Arakan State will...