Myanmar junta chief asks Thailand to drop daughter’s name from drugs, laundering case

April 12, 2023

NEWS DESK Junta chief Min Aung Hlaing has personally asked Thai authorities to drop his daughter’s name from a court case involving a Myanmar arms dealer indicted on charges of drug trafficking and money laundering, The Irrawaddy reports. Arms dealer Tun Min Latt was arrested in a police raid in Bangkok in September last year, […]Continue Reading

Myanmar military attacks rebel gathering, leaving 50 dead

April 11, 2023

NEWS DESK At least 50 people were killed in central Myanmar on Tuesday in an air strike by the military on an event attended by opponents to its rule, according to media and members of a local resistance movement. Citing residents in the Sagaing region, BBC Burmese, Radio Free Asia (RFA), and the Irrawaddy news portal reported between 50 and 100 people, including Continue Reading

Myanmar junta’s planned election to be contested by 63 parties

April 9, 2023

Myanmar’s military regime has dissolved 40 political parties including the National League for Democracy (NLD) and the Shan Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) for refusing to re-register under its tough new Political Parties Registration Law. However, 63 other parties will follow the road map of the junta despite its atrocities against its own people, The […]Continue Reading

Resistance raids Myanmar junta outposts near Chinese gambling hub

April 7, 2023

NEWS DESK Resistance forces attacked the Myanmar junta-affiliated Border Guard Force (BGF) near the Chinese-backed Shwe Kokko online gambling, scamming and trafficking hub in Karen State on Wednesday and Thursday, The Irrawaddy reports. The Lion Battalion and other resistance groups raided junta and BGF forces in Hteewapalaw and Hteekawhtaw villages in Myawaddy Township Continue Reading

NUG welcomes UN condemnation of Myanmar junta abuses

April 6, 2023

NEWS DESK The National Unity Government (NUG) Ministry of Human Rights has welcomed a new resolution of the 52nd session of the United Nations Human Rights Council that condemned the Myanmar junta’s brutal attacks on civilians, human rights violation and abuses, Mizzima News reports. The session was held on Wednesday (April 5). The following is […]Continue Reading

Thousands flee into Thailand after fighting between Myanmar military, rebels

April 6, 2023

NEWS DESK Fierce fighting between the Myanmar military and armed ethnic rebels has forced about 5,000 people to flee across the country’s border into Thailand this week, officials and media said on Thursday, Reuters reports. The clashes broke out when rebels in the southern Karen state attacked a military border guard outpost, according to reports […]Continue Reading

Myanmar junta dismisses commander after heavy casualties in Karen State

April 2, 2023

Myanmar’s junta has sacked Lieutenant General Khin Hlaing, the Karen State commander, after his forces suffered heavy casualties in clashes with the Karen National Union (KNU), The Irrawaddy reports. Khin Hlaing is the second general to be forced out after Lieutenant General Than Hlaing, the Sagaing Region commander, was dismissed last year. Major General Myat […]Continue Reading

More than 180 Rohingya Muslims arrive by boat in Indonesia’s Aceh

March 27, 2023

More than 180 Rohingya Muslims landed in Indonesia’s Aceh province on Monday, officials said, the latest among hundreds who have fled by boat from desperate conditions in Myanmar and in camps in Bangladesh. The United Nations refugee agency has said 2022 may have been one of the deadliest years at sea in almost a decade […]Continue Reading

US imposes fresh sanctions on Myanmar, targets jet fuel suppliers

March 25, 2023

The United States on Friday announced further sanctions against Myanmar, targeting the supply of jet fuel to Myanmar’s military following air strikes in civilian populated areas, the US Treasury Department said, Reuters reports. The Treasury in a statement said it imposed sanctions on two people and six entities connected to Myanmar’s military that Washington Continue Reading

The inside story of Myanmar govt’s info war on Rohingya

March 14, 2023

As sectarian tensions flared over the rape and killing of a Rakhine ethnic woman in May 2012, three reports from the Information Ministry arrived in the newsroom of the state-run Myanma Alin newspaper with orders to publish them without fail, The Irrawaddy writes. Two stories published by the state-run Myanma Alin Daily on June 5, […]Continue Reading