Over 80 regime soldiers reportedly killed in Southeast Myanmar

September 12, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s junta has pounded the small town of Moebye in Pekon Township, southern Shan State with air and artillery strikes, after regime forces reportedly lost over 80 soldiers killed during four days of intense fighting with resistance groups, The Irrawaddy reports. An eight-year-old child was killed in the junta bombardment and some 100 […]Continue Reading

Myanmar shelling sound sends panic among Rohingyas at zero line

September 10, 2022

NEWS DESK Rohingyas living at the zero line along the Myanmar-Bangladesh border adjoining Bandarban have been frightened by the sound of bullets, artillery and mortars heard from Myanmar. The territory between Konarpara of Tombru Bazar and Kha Mong Seik hill is called the zero line, or no mans’ land. More than 4,200 people of 621 […]Continue Reading

Myanmar conflict under control, junta chief says

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK The crisis in Myanmar is under control and the ruling military will do all in its power to hold elections next year as planned, providing the vote can be free from foreign interference, its leader said, Reuters reports. Speaking to Russian news agency RIA in a rare interview published on Wednesday, Senior General […]Continue Reading

We control over half of Myanmar’s territory: NUG

September 8, 2022

NEWS DESK Myanmar’s civilian National Unity Government (NUG) has said that its People’s Defense Forces (PDF) and allied ethnic revolutionary organizations (ERO)) have effective control of more than half the country after a year of waging a people’s defensive war against the military regime, The Irrawaddy reports. In a speech on Wednesday marking the one-year […]Continue Reading

Bangladesh not to allow any Myanmar national this time: Foreign minister

September 4, 2022

NEWS DESK Foreign minister AK Abdul Momen has said that no Myanmar national would be allowed to enter Bangladesh this time in light of the internal conflict in Myanmar. ‘However, we have information this time they won’t be coming toward Bangladesh,’ he told journalists after Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina’s video conference with tea workers on […]Continue Reading

UPDF firing, arsons mar half-day blockade in Khagrachhari

September 4, 2022

GUIMARA CORRESPONDENT In Khagrachhari, members of the UPDF (Prasit) again opened fire and set motorcycle on fire after a half-hour road blockade called by the goup in protest against the killing of Angthai Marma alias Agun. On Sunday (Sept 4, 2022) at around 5 pm, 15-16 UPDF members fired five rounds of bullets at motorcycles […]Continue Reading

UPDF’s half-day road blockade observed in Khagrachhari

September 4, 2022

STAFF CORRESPONDENT A half-hour road blockade called by the UPDF (Prasit) was observed in all five upazilas of Khagrachhari – Guimara, Matiranga, Ramgarh, Manikchari and Laxmichari – protesting the killing of 52-year-old Angthoi Marma alias Agun. There was no untoward incident anywhere. Due to the blockade, road communication between Khagrachari and the rest of Continue Reading

Mortar shells again in from Myanmar: Dhaka to summon Myanmar envoy

September 3, 2022

DESK REPORT Bangladesh will summon Myanmar’s Ambassador to Dhaka U Aung Kyaw Moe tomorrow (Sept 3) in connection with the incident of two mortar shells fired by Myanmar near the zero line of Bandarban’s Naikhongchhari border. “The ambassador of Myanmar to Bangladesh will be summoned on Sunday (September 4) in connection with the Myanmar border […]Continue Reading

Almost 1,500 Myanmar regime troops killed in Kayah State since May 2021

September 3, 2022

Nearly 1,500 Myanmar junta soldiers have been killed in the last 15 months in Kayah State in southeast Myanmar, while over 150 resistance fighters died in clashes with regime forces in Kayah in the same period, The Irrawaddy reports. Intense firefights and heavy air and artillery strikes have been reported almost daily in Kayah since […]Continue Reading

Seven Rohingya dead after boat seized, Myanmar authorities say

September 2, 2022

NEWS DESK Seven Rohingya people from a group of 65 seized by Myanmar authorities from a boat off the southern coast died of hunger, thirst and exposure, state media said Friday (Sept 2, 2022), AFP reports. On Monday, authorities detained a vessel near Pyapon township, around 120 kilometres (75 miles) south of commercial hub Yangon, […]Continue Reading