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June 14, 2022
Farmers are protesting plans by the junta-appointed Shan State Forest Department to seize farmland for the construction of a government office in...
June 14, 2022
As early monsoonal rains bring flooding to the crowded Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh, a serious and depressing realization is likely sinking...
June 14, 2022
Khin Zaw Thet, a member of the Mandalay Strike Force is receiving medical attention in hospital after being beaten by staff during a prison riot in...
More than 700,000 Muslims fled to Bangladesh in 2016-17. (Photo: AFP)
June 13, 2022
Arakanese political analysts say the military junta’s ostensible efforts to repatriate Muslims from Bangladesh are unlikely to succeed as long as...
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June 13, 2022
Fighting between the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) and the Burma Army (BA) is taking place in Kachin and northern Shan states because BA troops are...
June 13, 2022
The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR)’s humanitarian assistance has seldom reached the displaced people in desperate need, the...
June 13, 2022
More than a year after the military coup, more than 70 percent of the construction industry in Mon State has stopped, the construction developers...
June 13, 2022
Nearly all garment factories in Myanmar have been forced to shut down due to power outages and exorbitant fuel prices, the garment factory owners...
June 13, 2022
A hydro power plant is built at the Keng Tong waterfall, a very beautiful and strong current waterfall. The big electric poles and tower lines are...
June 13, 2022
Anarchy rules on the mean streets of Myanmar in the wake of the military coup. This has been demonstrated again and again in the cities of Yangon and...
June 13, 2022
The National Unity Government (NUG) announced last week that their foreign ministry delegation met with the Swedish Minister of Foreign Affairs to...
An election official counts a ballot after the polls closed at a polling station in Yangon on November 8, 2020. Photo: Sai Aung Main / AFP
June 13, 2022
A top US government official said Saturday there was 'no chance' the Myanmar junta's planned elections next year would be free and fair. Myanmar has...