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Myanmar's State Counsellor Aung San Suu Kyi. Photo: EPA
June 20, 2022
People around Myanmar will be taking time out to mark 19 June 2022, the 77th birthday of Myanmar’s democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi. The Nobel Prize...
June 20, 2022
If pro-democracy activists Jimmy (aka) Ko Kyaw Min Yu and MP Phyo Zaya Thaw, Hla Myo Aung and Aung Thura Zaw are sentenced to death, the Myanmar...
A view of the Parliament building in London, Britain. Photo: EPA
June 20, 2022
The NGO Justice For Myanmar has welcomed the UK government’s second round of sanctions targeting arms dealers trading with the military junta. The UK...
June 20, 2022
The Myanmar Military Council's election commission has stated that the election will be held using the PR system and that there would be no...
June 20, 2022
Dr. Zaw Myint Maung, a former Mandalay Region chief minister who was ousted along with the rest of the leaders of the National League for Democracy (...
In accordance with considerations for the dignity of the victim and DMG’s editorial ethics policy, the name of the nurse has not been disclosed.
June 20, 2022
Myo Chay — It was around 7 p.m. on May 10 at a cottage hospital in Zeditaung village, part of Arakan State’s Buthidaung Township. A 23-year-old nurse...
Abbot of Thazigon village monastery
June 20, 2022
A couple from Thazigon village in Arakan State’s Rathedaung Township were injured in a landmine explosion on Friday, according to the villagers. The...
June 20, 2022
A primary school principal and a female school teacher from Thinbawhla village in Arakan State’s Maungdaw Township went missing at around 1 p.m. on...
June 17, 2022
The Arakan Army (AA) members today arrested a junta soldier in Ponna Kyunt, a few miles north of Sittwe, the capital city of Arakan State. The...
Photo: Many young people were in The Bay bar
June 17, 2022
A case relating to the beating an LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender) student in the Bay Bar will be heard for the first time in Sittwe...
June 17, 2022
Arakan National League / Arakan Army (ULA /AA) have been focusing on reconciliation among people from different ethnic groups and religions in...
June 17, 2022
Hundreds of junta troops have surrendered to the Arakan Army (AA) since the coup in February 2021, according to a 14 June press release by the United...