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June 6, 2022
Local weaving businesses in Arakan State are struggling to maintain their operations due to the soaring prices of raw materials. The businesses have...
June 6, 2022
Conflict-affected Karen forced to drink dirty water are suffering severe diarrhoea in areas controlled by Karen National Union Brigade 1 and 6 where...
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June 6, 2022
Civilians displaced from their homes by the war could be starving soon, according to civil society organisations (CSOs) helping them in Karenni State...
June 6, 2022
A woman was killed, and her seven-year-old daughter wounded by artillery shelling of their village that was ordered by the State Administration...
June 6, 2022
Saw Doe Doh Eh K’lu, a medical trainer at KawThooLei Department of Health and Welfare (KDHW), said lack of access to nutritious food, basic medicine...
June 6, 2022
Many civilians uprooted by the conflict in Karenni State and in need of food and medicine could die if they don’t receive substantial humanitarian...
Pro-democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu (left) and former lawmaker Phyo Zeya Thaw (right) would be the first people to be judicially executed in Myanmar in decades. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
Myanmar's junta will execute a former member of Aung San Suu Kyi's party and a prominent democracy activist, both of whom were convicted of terrorism...
A woman carries a bag as she walks near the Tin Nyo village's internally displaced persons (IDP) shelter in Mrauk U township area, Rakhine State, western Myanmar. Photo: Nyunt Win/EPA
June 6, 2022
The National Unity Government (NUG) together with the Karenni National Progressive Party, Karen National Union and Chin National Front have expressed...
June 6, 2022
Myanmar junta troops have torched hundreds of buildings during a three-day raid in the country's north, local media and residents said, as the...
Students wait at a school entrance in Sittwe, capital of western Rakhine State on June 1, 2021. Schools in Myanmar opened on June 1 for the first time since the military seized power, but teachers and students are set to defy the junta's calls for full classrooms in a show of resistance. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
Myanmar students began a new school year on Thursday, with classrooms becoming the latest battleground in the polarised country -- the junta is...
This file undated handout photograph released by Myanmar's Military Information Team on January 21, 2022 shows democracy activist Kyaw Min Yu, also known as 'Jimmy', who rose to prominence during Myanmar's 1988 student uprising and was arrested in an overnight raid in October 2021. Photo: AFP
June 6, 2022
The United Nations says it is troubled by the plans of the Myanmar junta to execute a number of citizens including pro-democracy activists. Four...
June 6, 2022
Express services in Mon State may be halted due to skyrocketing fuel prices, the operators told Than Lwin Times. At least 73 long-distance express...