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July 4, 2022
The Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) has forced the closure of gambling dens set up after the military coup in Langkhur, southern Shan State...
A Sittwe Township signboard (Photo: DMG)
July 4, 2022
Two residents from the Arakan State capital Sittwe who were detained by Myanmar’s military regime for “being unable to give a satisfactory...
A first round of talks was held between Bangladeshi and Arakanese traders in Sittwe on June 17. (Photo: RSCCI)
July 4, 2022
U Tin Aung Oo, chairman of the Rakhine State Chamber of Commerce and Industry (RSCCI), said efforts were being made to establish direct trade with...
July 4, 2022
A local man from Wethmine village in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township who was severely injured in a landmine blast on July 1 succumbed to his...
Illegal Myanmar migrants detained by Thai authorities in Mae Sot. (Photo: Myawaddy / Mae Sot Media)
July 4, 2022
More than 20,000 Myanmar citizens have been detained by Thai authorities for illegally crossing the border into Thailand since last year’s coup,...
Several people are afflicted with skin conditions in Kyauktaw Township’s Nyaungchaung IDP camp. (Photo: CJ)
July 4, 2022
Thirty-five people, most of them children, from the Nyaungchaung camp for internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State’s Kyauktaw Township are...
July 4, 2022
The Military Council is assisting with airstrikes to defend Ukrihta military base near Wale Township, Southern Myawaddy, Karen State, to prevent the...
A MiG-29B sits on the tarmac. Photo: Wikipedia
July 4, 2022
Following the incursion of a Myanmar fighter jet into Thai airspace, a group of 21 ASEAN civil society groups sent a statement to the Thai government...
July 4, 2022
The Myanmar people will this week mark the 60th anniversary of the 7th July Students Uprising in Rangoon. This event was written in blood as over 100...
July 4, 2022
Last week the Myanmar authorities used World Drug Day to torch half a billion dollars’ worth of illegal narcotics, yet the sad truth is that post-...
July 4, 2022
A US-backed campaign is giving Russians access to anti-censor software to dodge Moscow's crackdown on dissent against its invasion of Ukraine,...
July 1, 2022
Karenni groups fighting the regime mistakenly attacked an unnamed ethnic armed organisation (EAO) they thought was delivering food to a Burma Army (...