Regime forces kill two and destroy medical facility in four-day orgy of looting and arson on river island of Yay Lal Kyun. 

Seventeen political prisoners at notorious Monywa jail face more time behind bars as punishment for last month’s protest at confiscation of food and medicines. 

Regime cronies Thein Win Zaw and Mu Mu Shein are set to follow former lieutenant general Moe Myint Tun as targets of the junta’s graft crackdown, businesspeople say.

Almost a year after it bombed a concert at A’Nang Pa, regime jets returned to attack the Hpakant Township village.

Under regime legislation, any party running nationally must open an office in at least half of Myanmar’s townships.  

The province accounted for about 40 percent of civilian war deaths so far this year, a recent UN report said.

The United Wa State Party says the two ‘senior cadres’ violated Chinese laws and harmed its international relationships.

Coup leader Min Aung Hlaing’s pleas for an invitation fell on deaf ears as Beijing continues to hold the global pariah at arm’s length.

New Delhi’s policy of continuing to back the NCA process after the coup is based on a serious miscalculation, as it fails to engage with all ethnic stakeholders.

Beijing will not tolerate any act that may break up Myanmar, special envoy tells junta boss Min Aung Hlaing.  

Three members of the All Burma Students’ Democratic Front have been suspended from official duties for failing to comply with its boycott of a junta ceremony.

Xiao Yanquan had been keeping a low profile before arrest warrant was issued, but sources recall his lavish lifestyle in Yangon, as well as his links to narcotics and prostitution.

The Russian president is attending China’s Belt and Road Initiative summit as Xi’s ‘chief guest’.

Village residents flee for higher ground in Kayah and southern Shan states, but volunteers say the threat of junta troops makes it hard to reach them. 

The Ta'ang National Liberation Army says its troops are battling an advance by the regime in Mogoke Township.

Several of the main ethnic armies including the Karen National Union, Kachin Independence Army and United Wa State Army skipped the NCA anniversary event.

Beijing is working with Myanmar’s regime to build a rail link between Yunnan Province and Rakhine State to open southwestern China to global markets. 

Shan State-based ethnic armed organization releases video of corpses and weapons strewn across road. 

Siegfried Modola’s coverage of the Karenni Army earned him one of this year’s Bayeux War Correspondents' Awards.

Three resistance fighters and two civilians were also killed in the incidents in Shan and Chin states and Magwe, Sagaing, Mandalay and Tanintharyi regions.

Around 10,000 civilians are reportedly huddling in fields, prey to artillery, after the military regime launched a fresh onslaught on Yay Lae Kyun.

Burmese Women’s Union says the number it documented during the period may under report killings of women and girls.

Junta using airstrikes and shelling in clashes with KIA, following massacre at IDP camp near Laiza Town on Monday night.

Also this week: The junta-appointed Union Election Commission launched the first public trial of its electronic voting machines.

As the junta prepares to mark the peace agreement’s eighth anniversary, The Irrawaddy looks at which ethnic armies signed it—and which ones have quit since the coup.

Pair’s joint visit sparks speculation they will join junta ceremony to mark anniversary of Nationwide Ceasefire Agreement, despite pullout by ethnic armed organizations now fighting the regime.    

Kachin Independence Army spokesman Colonel Naw Bu tells The Irrawaddy that it remains determined to defeat the regime.

Kachin Independence Army clashed with junta troops on China trade routes in two townships of northern Shan State on Wednesday.

The Karen National Union, Chin National Front and All Burma Students’ Democratic Front are snubbing the National Ceasefire Agreement anniversary event in Naypyitaw.

The regime’s media says a national database is being established with Chinese and Indian help to boost “national security, the rule of law and peace”.

The first flight of Thais fleeing the Israel-Hamas conflict landed in Bangkok on Thursday carrying 15 evacuees. More flights are scheduled for Sunday and Wednesday.

The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Magwe, Sagaing and Bago regions.

The junta’s technology minister is at Russian Energy Week trying to address the country’s power crisis.

Move comes after the foreign currency-starved regime slapped overseas workers with new tax and remittance rules.

Police in Yunnan and Jiejiang alleged the pair, a minister and a mayor, are leaders of telecom fraud gangs. China is cracking down on border scam syndicates.