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May 18, 2022
A special court inside Mon State’s Kyaikmaraw Prison has sentenced the ousted Mon State chief minister, Dr. Aye Zan, to 21 years in prison on nine...
May 17, 2022
Small-scale livestock farmers in Mon State said they have been forced to abandon their businesses due to high prices of livestock inputs and related...
May 17, 2022
According to a prominent Shan group, the regime murdered 10 civilians in Ywar Ngarn Township in southern Shan State from February to April. ”Instead...
May 17, 2022
Twenty-four local youth organisations, including the Arakan Students’ Union, on May 15 issued a joint statement condemning the Arakan Liberation...
May 17, 2022
Myanmar’s opposition civilian National Unity Government (NUG) and the United League of Arakan/Arakan Army (ULA/AA) had a virtual meeting on Monday,...
May 17, 2022
The Sittwe University students' union launched a Blue Ribbon campaign on opening day of the university today with an aim to provide peaceful...
May 17, 2022
In Minbya of central Rakhine State, the tension is heightened between the Burmese army personnel and Arakan Army (AA) members. Presently, close...
May 17, 2022
On 22 April, 2022, junta leader, Min Aung Hlaing, in addition to announcing his so-called “year of peace”, called for peace talks with ethnic armed...
Temporary lodging for internally displaced people (IDPs) is constructed as people flee clashes between the military and the Karen National Union (KNU) in Karen state, along the Thai-Myanmar border. Photo: STR / AFP
May 17, 2022
An extra 199,615 internally displaced people (IDPs) have been created in Karenni (Kayah) State and just across the state border in southern Shan...
May 17, 2022
Being a female star in Myanmar can have its downsides. In the immediate wake of the 1 February 2021 military coup, actresses, models and social...
May 17, 2022
Th health personnel at a private hospital in Mawlamyine told Than Lwin Times that military-affiliated groups were investigating whether there were...
May 12, 2022
Three prominent ethnic armed organisations (EAOs) fighting with Burma's military regime demanded that the upcoming peace talks with the military be...