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November 1, 2021
Sai Wansai - It must have been a rude awakening for the Burmese military coup-maker junta that ASEAN has taken a rather hardliner stance by...
November 1, 2021
Schools that have been closed since July 9 due to the Covid-19 pandemic will reopen on November 1, Myanmar’s military regime has announced. According...
November 1, 2021
There have been only 12 cases of motorbike theft filed at police stations in Arakan State this year despite anecdotal evidence of frequent motorbike...
November 1, 2021
A young writer from Pan Maw village in Arakan State’s Mrauk-U Township, who has been charged under the Counter-Terrorism Law, appeared before the...
October 31, 2021
Myanmar's military sentenced a close aide of ousted civilian leader Aung San Suu Kyi to 20 years in prison on Friday, his lawyer said, the first high...
An aerial view of Insein prison in Yangon. Photo: Nyein Chan Naing/EPA
October 31, 2021
Myanmar's military uses systematic torture on detainees across the country since it took over the government in February, according to an...
October 30, 2021
More than 1,000 illegal houses of squatters were forcibly removed from land along Yangon-Pathein highway in Hlaingtharyar Township on 28 October. The...
October 30, 2021
A local militia group said it carried out a landmine attack on a convoy of military trucks which fired warning shots on the motorway from Sagaing to...
October 30, 2021
The junta has released twenty-two political prisoners from prison in Loikaw as part of a mass amnesty that saw many people freed across the country...
October 30, 2021
A pregnant woman displaced by the conflict in Karenni State since May suffered a miscarriage in her seventh month. “She had to run from place to...
October 30, 2021
Entire communities in eastern Demawso Township have fallen ill after outbreaks continue to spread from village to village. “I didn’t believe it until...
October 30, 2021
The junta-appointed Union Election Commission (UEC) has ordered the prosecution of voters who allegedly cast ballots more than once in Myanmar’s...