The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Mandalay, Magwe and Sagaing regions.
Ousted NLD member Daw Sandar Min, ethnic party chief Dr. Aye Maung and NP News founder lobbied Japanese MPs against anti-regime resistance, urged them to back junta poll.
Nearly 500 children have been killed and around 120 schools destroyed in junta attacks since the 2021 military coup, the National Unity Government said.
Energy minister touts for investment at Russia, China and India-led Shanghai Cooperation Organization.
Women trade union leaders have been exposed to particularly violent treatment, including sexual violence, ILO investigation found.
U Kyaw Moe Tun, Myanmar’s United Nations ambassador, and the pro-democracy National Unity Consultative Council are poised to win the Nobel Peace Prize this week.
Embassies and international NGOs have been all too happy to exploit local workers amid a junta crackdown and soaring inflation.
Airstrike in Salingyi Township fails to protect convoy from attacks by local resistance forces.
One of the two people killed on Tuesday was identified as Myanmar national Moe Myint, 31; the other was from China.
Min Aung Hlaing and his family’s huge personal landholdings and vast business empire were built on corrupt military contracts and years of abuse of power.
Airstrikes are repeatedly targeting territory held by the Karen National Union and Kayah groups as regime ground forces suffer further losses.
Thailand’s move will encourage Min Aung Hlaing to consolidate control by escalating crimes and atrocities, analyst warns.
The Wara Zup militia in Kachin State seized weapons when they overran a minor Kachin Independence Army position in Tanai Township.
PTTEP says it wants to extend controversial contracts to ensure energy security, but critics say it should follow the lead of Chevron and exit the pariah country.
The Irrawaddy’s latest roundup includes incidents in Bago, Mandalay, Sagaing and Magwe regions.
Resistance forces claim 15 regime soldiers were killed in fight for control of strategic road in KNU territory.
Urban Owls says Nyan Lwin Aung was on its list of targets for buying weapons and surveillance systems for the military regime.
Two recent cases reveal how companies have evaded local and international rules to supply the junta with military hardware.
Another four people were injured in the shooting at Siam Paragon mall, a popular shopping and tourist spot; the prime minister said the situation was under control.
Dhaka says Mohammad Ershad of the Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army was involved in the killing of an intelligence officer last year and the 2016 attacks in Rakhine State.
SAC-M said UN members states, the Security Council and the General Assembly, as well as the secretary-general have failed to take meaningful action against the junta.
The village of Uthai Sawan in one of Thailand’s poorest areas still struggles to deal with the emotional toll of the massacre, which left 12 adults and 24 children dead.
The Karenni National Defense Force and allied resistance groups have been fighting the military in Hpruso and Demoso since a junta convoy arrived in the area a month ago.
Some farmers in major rice-growing regions say they have already lost half their crop.
Around 10,000 civilians reportedly flee as regime soldiers on a killing-burning mission clash with combined revolutionary forces in Depayin Township.
Residents and business owners in the country’s commercial hub are being crippled by the power crisis.
Desperate regime turns screws on households and the gems industry as experts warn of worse to come.
The ethnic armed organization said ex-chairman Saw Mutu Say Phoe’s talks with Min Aung Hlaing in Naypyitaw would have no impact on the KNU’s ongoing war against the regime.
Regime chief Min Aung Hlaing told a gathering on Wednesday that more than 600,000 tourists had visited Myanmar this year.
The Kalay Township Strike Committee says four of its members have not recovered from being tortured in April.
Also this week, Min Aung Hlaing boasted of a ‘tourism uptick’, but despairing operators tell a different tale.
The ethnic Rakhine armed group says it is blocking off Muslim villagers on the Bangladesh border searching for Arakan Rohingya Salvation Army criminals.
In a Facebook post, anti-junta activist Sann Minn Paing recounts the harrowing details of his life since the coup, and unveils a hip-hop song in honor of his parents.
In September, the junta’s counter-offensives in Kachin and northern Shan states failed, while it faced a surge of attacks in other states and regions.
Seven pupils were wounded critically when regime troops shelled a National Unity Government school in Wuntho Township, Sagaing.
