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June 27, 2022
Military tensions have been running high in Arakan State over recent weeks, with the Arakan Army (AA) detaining junta soldiers, police and other...
Tom Andrews, the UN Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in Myanmar, takes part in an interview with AFP at a hotel in Kuala Lumpur on June 23, 2022. Photo: APF
June 24, 2022
Southeast Asia's regional bloc must increase pressure on Myanmar's junta or there will be more death and suffering, a UN expert warned Thursday,...
Myanmar democracy icon Aung San Suu Kyi and Norway's Prime Minister give a press conference in Oslo on June 15, 2012. Photo: AFP
June 24, 2022
After more than a year under house arrest ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi has been transferred to solitary confinement in prison, the latest...
June 24, 2022
Ousted Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi remained in strong spirits after being transferred from house arrest to prison, a source with knowledge of the...
June 23, 2022
The military junta attempted to arrest a Pindaya township, Southern Shan State, NLD’s member of parliament, U Tun Tun Naing, but could not; instead,...
SSPP-SSA Soldiers
June 23, 2022
The regime has extended the deadline for the Shan State Progress Party (SSPP) to withdraw from three camps in southern Shan State, but a...
June 23, 2022
A member of the National League for Democracy (NLD), who ran in the previous democratic election in Burma, his daughter who allegedly joined the...
 Houses in Paikhun Township
June 23, 2022
Myanmar military junta and Pa-O National Organization (PNO) militia soldiers confiscated household materials and other properties from the internally...
June 23, 2022
“Due to the news that Pa-O National Organization (PNO) is enlisting young people, I have fled to Taunggyi city. None of my friends are staying at the...
Junta troops patrol in Mrauk-U, Arakan State, on June 22. (Photo: CJ)
June 23, 2022
The Myanmar military on Tuesday night released four women of more than 20 residents it detained in Kyauktaw Township earlier that day in response to...
A graduation ceremony for Arakan Army cadets. (Photo: AA Info Desk)
June 23, 2022
The Arakan Army (AA) has called on the people of Arakan State to be wary of the military junta, which it accused of stoking racial and religious...
June 23, 2022
On 19 June National Unity Government (NUG) introduced the Digital Myanmar Kyat (DMMK), Myanmar’s first blockchain-based digital currency. The DMMK...