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July 27, 2022
Farmers in northern Arakan State townships such as Ponnagyun, Kyauktaw, Mrauk-U, Minbya, Rathedaung, Buthidaung and Maungdaw are having trouble...
July 26, 2022
The businessman told Than Liwn Times that they do not have any hope for the loan that will be granted by the military council. The regime’s Ministry...
July 26, 2022
The regime’s Ministry of Planning and Finance announced on the 25th of July, 2022, that the police force would be awarded 10,000 Kyats monthly as...
July 26, 2022
Seven detained civilians including four women were taken to Kyauk Phyu town from Sanae police station for more interrogation after they were arrested...
July 26, 2022
The United League of Arakan / Arakan Army has condemned the Myanmar military council's execution of four persons including two pro-democracy...
July 26, 2022
A three-year-old was killed by Burma Army (BA) shrapnel during clashes with the Kachin Independence Army (KIA) in Kutkai Township, northern Shan...
Liesl Gerntholtz, director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. Photo: PEN America
July 26, 2022
PEN America, the writers' organisation that fights for freedom of expression for writers and against their persecution made a statement about the...
July 26, 2022
Some buses and taxis in Yangon that run on compressed natural gas (CNG) broke down because they used unknowingly used adulterated gas bought from gas...
July 26, 2022
Brig-Gen Saw Nedah Mya established a new Karen armed group called the Kaw Thoo Lei Army on 17 July, which is independent of the Karen National Union...
July 26, 2022
Three men in plainclothes abducted a police officer at a local bazaar in Sanae town, part of Arakan State’s Kyaukphyu Township, at about 7:30 a.m. on...
People queue to buy medicine at a pharmacy in Yangon. (Photo: CJ)
July 26, 2022
The prices of medicines are rising in some cities including the commercial capital Yangon due to the kyat’s depreciation against the US dollar and...
This file photo taken on January 13, 2012 shows Kyaw Min Yu (C), known as Jimmy, and his wife Ni Lar Thein (L) holding her child, both members of the 88 Generation student group, celebrating upon their arrival at Yangon international airport following their release from detention. Photo: AFP
July 25, 2022
Campaign group Human RIghts Watch (HRW) has released a statement condemning the reported execution of four men in the country’s first death sentences...