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Office of Kachin State Health Department, Myitkyina
April 7, 2020
Kachin State’s health department has reported that a total of 2,985 people are being monitored either at home or in quarantine facilities for signs...
April 7, 2020
With both roads and waterways blocked between Kyauktaw in Rakhine State and Paletwa in Chin State, locals in Paletwa are facing severe shortages of...
April 7, 2020
Chin refugees in India say that they are facing severe food shortages following a nationwide lockdown imposed by the government in order to prevent...
Photo ; Office of the Commander-in-Chief.
April 7, 2020
Aung Htein — A man and a woman from two villages in Paletwa Township, Chin State, have been detained by the Tatmadaw and stand accused of having ties...
April 7, 2020
Min Tun — It has been almost 10 months since the government cut off mobile internet access in eight townships of Arakan State and Paletwa Township in...
April 6, 2020
SENG PHOO — Authorities in Namzang Township, southern Shan State, have enforced a 7:00 p.m. until 6:00 a.m. curfew on the area until April 30 in what...
People have their temperatures checked amid concerns over the spread of the COVID-19 coronavirus at the immigration post in Myawaddy near the Thai border on March 23, 2020, as thousands of people crossed from Thailand as the border crossings were due to close because of the growing pandemic. Photo: AFP
April 6, 2020
A migrant support network has voiced concern over Myanmar and other regional migrants in Southeast Asia who are negatively affected by government...
Photo by SHAB – Shan State Goverment
April 6, 2020
Seng Hpoo — The Shan State government does not have any separate funds designated to prevent and treat the coronavirus, and will rely on what remains...
April 6, 2020
Ethnic armed organizations (EAOs) have said that they are struggling to work with the Burmese government to combat the coronavirus pandemic...
April 6, 2020
Northern Alliance leaders called on the Burma Army and government to declare a ceasefire to give them time to launch programs in their communities to...
Voice of Myanmar (VOM) editor-in-chief Nay Myo Lin (C) sits in a vehicle as he is escorted from his home by the police to court in Mandalay on March 31, 2020. Photo: Zaw Zaw/AFP
April 6, 2020
Human Rights Watch (HRW) has called on the Myanmar authorities to immediately drop all charges against an editor for broadcasting an interview with...
Photo: Myanmar State Counsellor Office
April 6, 2020
Naung Naung — State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi said that keeping returnees from foreign countries at COVID-19 quarantine centres for 14 days was not...