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Myanmar citizens detained in connection with the death of a Thai man. (Photo: BBC)
June 9, 2022
Thai police have identified nine Arakanese people as suspects in the death of a Thai man in Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, southern Thailand, near the...
June 9, 2022
According to campaign group Progressive Voice the international community risks allowing the junta to weaponise aid by putting all aid through the...
June 9, 2022
In the wake of the Myanmar military coup, Myanmar nationalists and propagandists began to fall foul of Facebook’s community standard controls,...
Ko Jimmy, veteran pro-democracy activist and leading member of 88 Generation Students Group (left) and Ko Phyo Zeya Thaw, former NLD lawmaker (right). Photo: Twitter/IrrawaddyNews
June 9, 2022
Myanmar’s military junta announced on 3 June 2022, that it would execute four people whose appeals were rejected following grossly unjust closed-door...
June 9, 2022
A Karenni youth employment group, formed about seven years ago, is trying to raise money for municipal workers who've joined the civil disobedience...
Caption: An old school building in Nyaung Chaung Thit village, Ann Township, and a new school building locked by the construction company. (Photo: DMG)
June 9, 2022
A new school building in Nyaung Chaung Thit village in Arakan State’s Ann Township has been closed and children are studying at an old school...
This photo taken on Sept 22, 2017 in Sittwe, in Myanmar's Rakhine state, shows boys waiting for food near a makeshift kitchen outside a disused football stadium in an IDP camp sheltering hundreds of Hindu villagers displaced by communal violence. Photo: AIDAN JONES / AFP
June 9, 2022
According to campaign group Progressive Voice the international community risks allowing the junta to weaponise aid by putting all aid through the...
June 9, 2022
Following a meeting for so-called peace talks with regime leaders in Naypyidaw, the Restoration Council of Shan State (RCSS) is reportedly mobilising...
June 9, 2022
Burmese-Thai authorities have reopened the border between Kawt Thaung and Ranong after it was closed for over two years during the pandemic. On 1...
June 9, 2022
The International Council on Monuments and Sites (ICOMOS) will conduct a field survey of Mrauk-U in September, following Myanmar’s December 2021...
June 9, 2022
Rainy days often contribute to sadness. For veteran Arakanese revolutionaries, they can’t help but remember one person in particular each year on...
Wah Taung IDP camp is pictured in the last week of April. (Photo: Ma Hla Win)
June 9, 2022
Internally displaced people (IDPs) in Arakan State are acutely short of food supplies as the military regime is only providing a small amount and...